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A family name on Collingwood Street, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano

The Cowans

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Cowan at one address, 4742 Collingwood Street in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Cowan name's own page.

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The Cowans at home

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).
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    4742 Collingwood Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Mrs H M Cowan 1940
    • John D Cowan, an accountant at the CN Institute 1940
    • Norman S Cowan, an accountant at Foster & Barrett-Lennard 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Mulder at 4726 and D B Thomas at 4768. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an accountant (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Mrs H M Cowan at 4742 Collingwood 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Helen M Cowan there as the householder, with John D Cowan, an accountant at the CN Institute, and Norman S Cowan, an accountant at Foster & Barrett-Lennard.

Today

4742 Collingwood (2014) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Mrs. Rose Ellen Mitchell in the snow outside a tent house at 29th Avenue and Collingwood Street
About 1915 Mrs. Rose Ellen Mitchell in the snow outside a tent house at 29th Avenue and Collingwood Street. Not at the house at 4742 Collingwood: no archive photo of the 4700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.447. 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, street section

The book of the Cowans

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Cowan 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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Another name, or a house

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.