A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Murrays
In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses
The directories print five people named Murray at two addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Murrays at 1362 East 10th in 1940. The directories print the name on 136 other streets too, all listed on the Murray name's own page.
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Where the Murrays lived
- 1
1017 East 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs Edna Murray 1940
Next door in 1940: H G Chambers at 1011 and Mrs M Dixon at 1049. The block, door by door
- 2
1362 East 10th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Miss J G Murray 1940
- Jeanie G Murray 1940
- Agnes Murray, an office secretary at the United Church of Canadian 1940
- Sarah G Murray 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs J Laycock at 1356 and S C Robinson at 1370. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the five: an office secretary.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Edna Murray at 1017 East 10th Avenue. Miss J G Murray is listed at 1362 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Jeanie G Murray there as the householder, with Agnes Murray, an office secretary at the United Church of Canadian, and Sarah G Murray.
Today
1017 East 10th and 1362 East 10th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1362 East 10th on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Murray Mrs Edna1017 East 10th, p. 450
- Murray Miss J G1362 East 10th, p. 198
- Murray Agnes office sec United Ch of Can1362 East 10th, p. 449
- Murray Jeanie G1362 East 10th, p. 450
- Murray Sarah G1362 East 10th, p. 451
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Murrays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Murray name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under M. Want a name removed? Tell us.