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A family name on West 8th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Murrays

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Murray at four addresses in 1940, all on West 8th Avenue. 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

    734 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Gerard Murray, a salesman at Forsts 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Campsall at 726 and H W Martin at 744. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1795 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • W Murray, a foreman at McGavin 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D Ingram at 1787. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3374 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W G Murray, a building contractor 1940
    • Charles Murray, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: C G Lewin at 3366 and T Rae at 3382. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4683 West 8th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Annie Murray, widow of D 1940
    • Margaret Murray, a stenographer at H Harvey & Son 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A S Hill at 4673 and W S Drury at 4691. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a building contractor, a carpenter, a foreman, a salesman and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2), Kitsilano and West Point Grey. 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 Gerard Murray at 734 West 8th Avenue, a salesman at Forsts. W Murray is listed at 1795 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William Murray there as the householder, a foreman at McGavin.

W G Murray, a building contractor, is listed at 3374 West 8th 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 William G Murray there, a building contractor, with Charles Murray, a carpenter. The 1940 name section lists Annie Murray at 4683 West 8th Avenue, widow of D, with Margaret Murray, a stenographer at H Harvey & Son.

Today

3374 West 8th and 4683 West 8th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 734 West 8th and 1795 West 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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.