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A family name on East Cordova Street, Strathcona and Downtown

The Andersons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Anderson at five addresses in 1940, all on East Cordova Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 213 other streets too, all listed on the Anderson name's own page.

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Where the Andersons 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

    42 East Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A Anderson, a logger 1940
    • D Anderson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Pumps & Power Ltd at 40 and Pumps & Power (whse) at 48. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    119 East Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • George R Anderson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Eagle Mill & Log Supp at 117 and Nicol G Oil Supp at 123. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    128 East Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • T S Anderson, a blacksmith 1940

    Next door in 1940: Police Garage at 120 and Eagle Mill & Log (whse) at 134. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    144 East Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Marinus Anderson, a farm hand 1940

    Next door in 1940: Fishermen's Union United at 138 and Peterson & Cowan Elev at 150. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    219 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • John Anderson, a steelworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Acme Lock & Key Serv at 217 and Scandinavian Baptist Mission at 259. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a farm hand, a logger and a steelworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (4) 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 A Anderson at 42 East Cordova Street, a logger, with Albert Anderson and D Anderson. The 1940 name section lists George R Anderson at 119 East Cordova Street. In 1940 the directory lists T S Anderson, a blacksmith, at 128 East Cordova Street; 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 Marinus Anderson at 144 East Cordova Street, a farm hand.

The 1940 name section lists John Anderson at 219 East Cordova Street, a steelworker.

Today

42 East Cordova still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 119 East Cordova (1987) and 144 East Cordova (2005) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 128 East Cordova and 219 East Cordova, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Andersons

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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.