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A family name on Marguerite Street, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy

The Youngs

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Young at two addresses in 1940, all on Marguerite Street. 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 137 other streets too, all listed on the Young name's own page.

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Where the Youngs 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

    4930 Marguerite Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Nellie Young, a maid for Dr J R Neilson 1940

    Next door in 1940: H F Angus at 4950. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5230 Marguerite Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • F Young, a dentist 1940

    Next door in 1940: G B Duncan at 5210 and G U A Chowne at 5250. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a dentist and a maid.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (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 Nellie Young at 4930 Marguerite Street, a maid for Dr J R Neilson. F Young is listed at 5230 Marguerite Street 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 Frank Young there as the householder, a dentist.

Today

4930 Marguerite and 5230 Marguerite still have their buildings from before 1946.

A shingled house with a For Sale sign at 6385 Marguerite Street
4 November 1931 A shingled house with a For Sale sign at 6385 Marguerite Street. Not at the house at 5230 Marguerite: no archive photo of the 5200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4092. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Youngs

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Young 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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.