A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Cowans
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Cowan at two addresses in 1940, all on East 8th 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 48 other streets too, all listed on the Cowan name's own page.
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Where the Cowans lived
- 1
56 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- William Cowan, a driver 1940
Next door in 1940: W J Bates at 44 and Mrs I W Brown at 70. The block, door by door
- 2
721 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs Viola Cowan, a musician 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs E M Melhus at 719 and H J Pike at 727. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a driver and a musician.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Cowan at 56 East 8th Avenue, a driver. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Viola Cowan at 721 East 8th Avenue, a musician.
Today
The City no longer lists 56 East 8th and 721 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Cowan Wm drvr56 East 8th, p. 132
- Cowan Mrs Viola musician721 East 8th, p. 132
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.