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A family name on West 21st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Camerons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Cameron at two addresses in 1940, all on West 21st Avenue. 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    318 West 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • N A Cameron, a mechanic at Canadian Bakeries 1940

    Next door in 1940: L E Robertson at 308 and H J King at 328. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    639 West 21st Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Margaret Cameron, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: W R Westlake at 641. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a mechanic and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park 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

In 1940 the directory lists N A Cameron at 318 West 21st Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Neil A Cameron there as the householder, a mechanic at Canadian Bakeries. The 1940 name section lists Margaret Cameron at 639 West 21st Avenue, a student, with Margaret E Cameron, a stenographer.

Today

318 West 21st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1938 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 639 West 21st, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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.