A family name on West 37th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
The Russells
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Russell at one address, 1705 West 37th Avenue in Shaughnessy, 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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1705 West 37th Avenue
Shaughnessy, 1940
- G B Russell, a director at Arbutus S & D 1940
- Jean A Russell, a stenographer at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
- Margot I Russell, a clerk at Pemberton & Son 1940
Next door in 1940: G W Clarkson at 1747. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a director and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Shaughnessy. 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 B Russell at 1705 West 37th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George B Russell there as the householder, a director at Arbutus S & D, with Jean A Russell, a stenographer at the Vancouver General Hospital, and Margot I Russell, a clerk at Pemberton & Son.
Today
1705 West 37th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Russell G B1705 West 37th, p. 253
- Russell Geo B dir Arbutus S & D1705 West 37th, p. 538
- Russell Jean A sten Van Genl Hosp1705 West 37th, p. 538
- Russell Margot I clk Pemberton & Son1705 West 37th, 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.