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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Trouts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Trout at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Trouts 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

    730 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C G Trout, a salesman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: G R Beedom at 728 and A N Gray at 736. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1853 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Burdett Trout, a salesman at Truck Parts & Equipment 1940

    Next door in 1940: H J Cupper at 1835 and Mrs T Oliver at 1857. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3256 West King Edward Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Mrs M Trout 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Rendell at 3250 and G F Pirie at 3272. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a salesman (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Mount Pleasant and West End. 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 C G Trout at 730 East 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles G Trout there as the householder, a salesman at Woodward's. The 1940 name section lists Burdett Trout at 1853 Nelson Street, a salesman at Truck Parts & Equipment.

Mrs M Trout is listed at 3256 West King Edward Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Margaret Trout there as the householder.

Today

730 East 8th (1969) and 3256 West King Edward (2011) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1853 Nelson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Trouts

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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.