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A family name on West 20th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Andersons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Anderson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 20th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Andersons at 3676 West 20th in 1940. 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

    629 West 20th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • James E Anderson, a salesman at Associated Dairies 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Granville at 621 and J Thomson at 639. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3676 West 20th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • H T Anderson, who worked for Ford Motor 1940
    • Amy I Anderson, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Marguerite H Anderson, a saleswoman at Woolworths 1940
    • Rita Anderson, a saleswoman at Woolworths 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Webb at 3662 and A Dunbar at 3690. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a saleswoman (3), an employee and a salesman. Two of them worked for Woolworths.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and South Cambie. 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 James E Anderson at 629 West 20th Avenue, a salesman at Associated Dairies. H T Anderson is listed at 3676 West 20th Avenue 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 Harry T Anderson there as the householder, who worked for Ford Motor, with Amy I Anderson, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company, Marguerite H Anderson, a saleswoman at Woolworths, and Rita Anderson, a saleswoman at Woolworths.

Today

3676 West 20th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 629 West 20th (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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.