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A family name on Hudson Street, Marpole, Shaughnessy and Oakridge

The Camerons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Cameron at two addresses in 1940, all on Hudson 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 111 other streets too, all listed on the Cameron name's own page.

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Where the Camerons 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

    5316 Hudson Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Mary D Cameron, a maid for H V Whittall 1940
  2. 2

    5730 Hudson Street

    Oakridge, 1940

    • D M Cameron, a manager at Dodwell & Co Ltd 1940
    • Gordon D Cameron, a clerk at Dodwell & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: E E Chamberlain at 5710 and F J Foran at 5750. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a maid and a manager.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Oakridge and Shaughnessy. 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 Mary D Cameron at 5316 Hudson Street, a maid for H V Whittall. D M Cameron is listed at 5730 Hudson 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 Duncan M Cameron there as the householder, a manager at Dodwell & Co Ltd, with Gordon D Cameron, a clerk at Dodwell & Co.

Today

5730 Hudson (2014) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5316 Hudson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars
The 1910s Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars. Not at the house at 5730 Hudson: no archive photo of the 5700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 994. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Camerons

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Cameron 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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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.