A family name on East 5th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise
The Davidsons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Davidson at one address, 132 East 5th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, 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
Pleasant
- 1
132 East 5th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Edward Davidson, who worked for the Lucky Strike Bottling Works 1940
- Margaret Davidson, a laundress 1940
Next door in 1940: J Mochar Jr at 122 and A J Sarup at 138. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an employee and a laundress.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 Edward Davidson at 132 East 5th Avenue, who worked for the Lucky Strike Bottling Works, with Margaret Davidson, a laundress.
Today
The City no longer lists 132 East 5th, so that building is 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.
- Davidson Edw emp Lucky Strike Bottling Wks132 East 5th, p. 149
- Davidson Margt lndrs IXL Lndy132 East 5th, p. 149
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.