A family name on East Georgia Street, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Abbotts
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Abbott at two addresses in 1940, all on East Georgia 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 36 other streets too, all listed on the Abbott name's own page.
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Where the Abbotts lived
- 1
207 East Georgia Street
Strathcona, 1940
- M Abbott 1940
Next door in 1940: Sun Lee at 205. The block, door by door
- 2
2421 East Georgia Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- G Abbott, a conductor at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: S C Davidson at 2411 and J Eldred at 2429. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a conductor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise and Strathcona. 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 M Abbott at 207 East Georgia Street. G Abbott is listed at 2421 East Georgia 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 George Abbott there as the householder, a conductor at the CPR, with George Abbott Jr.
Today
2421 East Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 207 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Abbott M207 East Georgia, p. 2
- *Abbott G2421 East Georgia, p. 56
- Abbott Geo cond CPR2421 East Georgia, p. 2
- Abbott Geo Jr2421 East Georgia, p. 2
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Abbotts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Abbott 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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.