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A family name on Cartier Street, Marpole, Shaughnessy and Oakridge

The Dawsons

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Dawson at one address, 5749 Cartier Street in Oakridge, in 1940. The directories print the name on 62 other streets too, all listed on the Dawson 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 Dawsons 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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    5749 Cartier Street

    Oakridge, 1940

    • Louise Dawson 1940

    Next door in 1940: J R Welton at 5729 and J B Rose at 5769. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Oakridge. 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 Louise Dawson at 5749 Cartier Street.

Today

5749 Cartier still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.

Firemen with their motor engines outside the Point Grey fire hall at Cartier Street and 38th Avenue
About 1920 Firemen with their motor engines outside the Point Grey fire hall at Cartier Street and 38th Avenue. Not at the house at 5749 Cartier: no archive photo of the 5700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, FD P44. Public domain.

Every line as printed

The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Dawsons

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Dawson 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.

We're opening orders soon. Join the list to be first in line; we expect about $29 a family.

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.