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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cowans

In the city directories 1940 · 59 addresses on 49 streets

The directories print the Cowan name at 59 addresses on 49 streets in 1940, in 18 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Cowans lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Downtown8 addresses
  2. Fairview8 addresses
  3. Dunbar-Southlands6 addresses
  4. Kitsilano6 addresses
  5. Mount Pleasant6 addresses
  6. West Point Grey6 addresses
  7. West End4 addresses
  8. Hastings-Sunrise3 addresses
  9. Arbutus Ridge2 addresses
  10. Kensington-Cedar Cottage2 addresses
  11. Grandview-Woodland1 address
  12. Kerrisdale1 address
  13. Renfrew-Collingwood1 address
  14. Riley Park1 address
  15. Shaughnessy1 address
  16. Strathcona1 address
  17. Sunset1 address
  18. Victoria-Fraserview1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    West 13th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; four people: C O Cowan, E H Cowan and Rita Cowan, and one more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 14th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; three people: D Cowan, J E Cowan and John G Cowan
    1940
  3. 3
    East 12th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; three people: W Cowan, D S Cowan and Margaret H Cowan
    1940
  4. 4
    East 8th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant; two people: Mrs Viola Cowan and William Cowan
    1940
  5. 5
    West 12th AvenueTwo addresses in Kitsilano; three people: H T Cowan, Harry A Cowan and Ruth G Cowan
    1940
  6. 6
    West 37th AvenueTwo addresses in Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands; three people: A J Cowan, J B Cowan and T Archibald Cowan
    1940
  7. 7
    West 5th AvenueTwo addresses in Kitsilano and West Point Grey; two people: W C Cowan and William H Cowan
    1940
  8. 8
    West 8th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; five people: Mrs S M Cowan, E Mabel Cowan and Grace R Cowan, and two more
    1940
  9. 9
    Barclay StreetOne address in West End; one person: Mrs Mary Cowan
    1940
  10. 10
    Collingwood StreetOne address in Dunbar-Southlands; three people: Mrs H M Cowan, John D Cowan and Norman S Cowan
    1940
  11. 11
    Crown StreetOne address in West Point Grey; one person: Margaret Cowan
    1940
  12. 12
    East 11th AvenueOne address in Mount Pleasant; two people: J M Cowan and William L Cowan
    1940

37 more streets, by name: East 26th Avenue (1), East 30th Avenue (1), East 40th Avenue (1), East 45th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 63rd Avenue (1), East Broadway (1), East Hastings Street (1), Granville Street (1), Haro Street (1), Homer Street (1), Howe Street (1), Keefer Street (1), Kitchener Street (1), Mackenzie Street (1), Matthews Avenue (1), Melville Street (1), Nelson Street (1), Nicola Street (1), Oak Street (1), Ogden Avenue (1), Oxford Street (1), Parker Street (1), Smithe Street (1), West 10th Avenue (1), West 15th Avenue (1), West 1st Avenue (1), West 23rd Avenue (1), West 24th Avenue (1), West 34th Avenue (1), West 36th Avenue (1), West 3rd Avenue (1), West 41st Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (1), West Broadway (1), West Georgia Street (1), West Pender Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 59 addresses, 17 still have their buildings from before 1946, 19 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 23; each street's page names them.

The book of the Cowans

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under C. Want a name removed? Tell us.