A family name on East 41st Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview, Renfrew-Collingwood and Killarney
The Davidsons
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Davidson at one address, 722 East 41st Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 112 other streets too, all listed on the Davidson name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Davidsons at home
- 1
722 East 41st Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- A N Davidson, a mechanic 1940
Next door in 1940: G Hall at 728. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a mechanic.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 N Davidson at 722 East 41st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Andrew N Davidson there as the householder, a mechanic.
Today
722 East 41st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Davidson A N722 East 41st, p. 257
- Davidson Andw N mech722 East 41st, p. 149
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Davidsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Davidson 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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.