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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cowlins

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Cowlin at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: five Cowlins at 2749 West 3rd in 1940.

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Where the Cowlins 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

    2749 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Miss E M Cowlin 1940
    • Emily M Cowlin 1940
    • Florence M Cowlin, a stenographer at the Dominion Bank 1940
    • Grace B Cowlin, an assistant for Miss M Richardson 1940
    • Herbert A Cowlin 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs R S Cameron at 2745 and R A Bindon at 2761. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1409 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Cowlin, a widow 1940

    Next door in 1940: L McConvey at 1415. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: an assistant and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Kitsilano. 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 Miss E M Cowlin at 2749 West 3rd 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 Emily M Cowlin there as the householder, with Florence M Cowlin, a stenographer at the Dominion Bank, Grace B Cowlin, an assistant for Miss M Richardson, and Herbert A Cowlin. The 1940 name section lists Cowlin at 1409 West 7th Avenue, a widow.

Today

2749 West 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1409 West 7th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.