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A family name on West 15th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Murrays

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Murray at three addresses in 1940, all on West 15th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Murrays at 1170 West 15th 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

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

    1170 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Kathleen S Murray 1940
    • Marguerite P Murray, a parceller at Spencer's 1940
    • Pat S Murray, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: J R Dibb at 1160 and Chatham Hse Hosp at 1180. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1455 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J H Murray 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Collard at 1445 and miromar (the) at 1465. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2415 West 15th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • T C Murray, a fitter at N Vancouver Ship Repairs 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Morrison at 2405 and F H Taylor at 2425. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a fitter and a parceller.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Kitsilano. 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 Kathleen S Murray at 1170 West 15th Avenue, with Marguerite P Murray, a parceller at Spencer's, and Pat S Murray, retired. J H Murray is listed at 1455 West 15th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists J H Murray there as the householder.

T C Murray is listed at 2415 West 15th Avenue in 1940; 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 Thomas C Murray there as the householder, a fitter at N Vancouver Ship Repairs.

Today

1455 West 15th and 2415 West 15th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1170 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.