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A family name on Maple Street, Kitsilano, Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale

The Davidsons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Davidson at one address, 5189 Maple Street in Shaughnessy, in 1940. The directories print the name on 112 other streets too, all listed on the Davidson name's own page.

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The Davidsons at home

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).
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    5189 Maple Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • F A Davidson, a representative at Copeland-Chatterton 1940
    • Bernice A Davidson, a stenographer at Sherwin-Williams 1940
    • Leslie F Davidson, a meter reader at the BC Electric Railway 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a meter reader, a representative and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Shaughnessy. 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 F A Davidson at 5189 Maple 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 Forbes A Davidson there as the householder, a representative at Copeland-Chatterton, with Bernice A Davidson, a stenographer at Sherwin-Williams, and Leslie F Davidson, a meter reader at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

5189 Maple still has its building from before 1946, dated 1917 by the City's record.

Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it
1912 Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it. Not at the house at 5189 Maple: no archive photo of the 5100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P90.08. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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.