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A family name on Dumfries Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Davidsons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Davidson at two addresses in 1940, all on Dumfries Street. 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 112 other streets too, all listed on the Davidson name's own page.

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Where the Davidsons 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

    4562 Dumfries Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Davidson, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge 1940
    • Vera S Davidson, an elevator operator 1940

    Next door in 1940: A McIntosh at 4546 and F W Hicklenton at 4570. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4890 Dumfries Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A W Davidson, a machinist at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Campbell at 4824. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an elevator operator, a machinist and a steelworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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

In 1940 the directory lists A Davidson at 4562 Dumfries 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 Alex Davidson there as the householder, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge, with Vera S Davidson, an elevator operator. In 1940 the directory lists A W Davidson at 4890 Dumfries Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Alex W Davidson there as the householder, a machinist at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

4890 Dumfries still has its building from before 1946, dated 1938 by the City's record; 4562 Dumfries (1997) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Davidsons

Every directory, as one book

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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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.