A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Russells
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Russell at two addresses in 1940, all on East 11th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 103 other streets too, all listed on the Russell name's own page.
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Where the Russells lived
- 1
268 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Ernest W Russell, a shipper at Crystal Dairy 1940
Next door in 1940: E G Haywood at 260 and W J Woodley at 278. The block, door by door
- 2
804 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- F L Russell, a salesman at Stewart-Warner Sales 1940
Next door in 1940: J R Alexander at 812. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a salesman and a shipper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2). 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 Ernest W Russell at 268 East 11th Avenue, a shipper at Crystal Dairy. F L Russell is listed at 804 East 11th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frederick L Russell there as the householder, a salesman at Stewart-Warner Sales.
Today
804 East 11th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 268 East 11th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Russell Ernest W shpr Crystal Dairy268 East 11th, p. 538
- Russell F L804 East 11th, p. 202
- Russell Fredk L slsmn Stewart-Warner Sales804 East 11th, p. 538
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Russells
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Russell 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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.