A family name on East 51st Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney
The Russells
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Russell at one address, 655 East 51st Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 103 other streets too, all listed on the Russell name's own page.
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The Russells at home
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655 East 51st Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- J Russell, a building contractor 1940
- Agnes B G Russell, an operator at Mackay Smith Blair 1940
- Margaret C Russell, a saleswoman for A E Cole 1940
- Miss N Russell, a stenographer at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs E Walton at 635 and D Graham at 675. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a building contractor, an operator, a saleswoman and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 J Russell, a building contractor, at 655 East 51st Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists John Russell there as the householder, a building contractor, with Agnes B G Russell, an operator at Mackay Smith Blair, Margaret C Russell, a saleswoman for A E Cole, and Miss N Russell, a stenographer at the Hudson's Bay Company.
Today
655 East 51st (1993) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Russell J bldg contr655 East 51st, p. 266
- Russell Agnes B G opr Mackay Smith Blair655 East 51st, p. 537
- Russell John bldg contr655 East 51st, p. 538
- Russell Margt C slswm A E Cole655 East 51st, p. 538
- Russell Miss N sten HBC655 East 51st, p. 538
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.