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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

The Murrays

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Murray at three addresses in 1940, all on Victoria Drive. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    765 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • G L Murray, a machinist 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Judd at 715. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3381 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W J Murray, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Robinson at 3347. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5108 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W W Murray, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Potter at 5124. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a conductor and a machinist.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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

In 1940 the directory lists G L Murray at 765 Victoria Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George L Murray there as the householder, a machinist. In 1940 the directory lists W J Murray at 3381 Victoria Drive; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists William J Murray there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway.

In 1940 the directory lists W W Murray, a barber, at 5108 Victoria Drive; the 1940 line is marked * too.

Today

765 Victoria Drive, 3381 Victoria Drive and 5108 Victoria Drive still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Murrays

Every directory, as one book

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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.