A family name on West 17th Avenue, South Cambie, Riley Park, Shaughnessy, Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands
The Davidsons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Davidson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 17th Avenue. 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
- 1
898 West 17th Avenue
South Cambie, 1940
- R Davidson, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs N H Heeney at 888. The block, door by door
- 2
1927 West 17th Avenue
Shaughnessy, 1940
- C Peers Davidson, a salesman at Standard Oil 1940
Next door in 1940: E L Middleton at 1951. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Shaughnessy and South Cambie. 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 R Davidson at 898 West 17th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert Davidson there as the householder, a watch repairer at the Hudson's Bay Company, with Robert W Davidson, a student. The 1940 name section lists C Peers Davidson at 1927 West 17th Avenue, a salesman at Standard Oil.
Today
898 West 17th and 1927 West 17th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Davidson R898 West 17th, p. 225
- Davidson Robt wtch repr HBC898 West 17th, p. 149
- Davidson Robt W studt898 West 17th, p. 149
- Davidson C Peers slsmn Standard Oil1927 West 17th, 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.