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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bowrons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Bowron at two addresses in 1940 in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Bowrons 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

    1315 East 17th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • H A Bowron, a warehouseman at the Liquor Control Board 1940
    • Ida B Bowron 1940

    Next door in 1940: A L Sparrow at 1305 and H Whelan at 1325. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4365 Prince Albert Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • LeR A Bowron 1940
    • Le Roy A Bowron, a driver at Pony Express 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Skea at 4355 and G McLeod at 4375. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a driver and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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

In 1940 the directory lists H A Bowron at 1315 East 17th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harry A Bowron there as the householder, a warehouseman at the Liquor Control Board, with Ida B Bowron. In 1940 the directory lists LeR A Bowron at 4365 Prince Albert 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 Le Roy A Bowron there as the householder, a driver at Pony Express.

Today

4365 Prince Albert (2019) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1315 East 17th, 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 Bowrons

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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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.