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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

The Dawsons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Dawson at two addresses in 1940, all on Quebec Street. 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 62 other streets too, all listed on the Dawson name's own page.

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Where the Dawsons lived

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).
  1. 1

    1919 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • E Dawson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rodney (no first name printed) at 1911 and W Haddon at 1947. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4399 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • O Dawson, a woodworker at Monarch Furniture 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Bullard at 4389. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a woodworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. 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 E Dawson at 1919 Quebec Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Emerson Dawson there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists O Dawson at 4399 Quebec 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 lists Oswald Dawson there as the householder, a woodworker at Monarch Furniture.

Today

1919 Quebec and 4399 Quebec still have their buildings from before 1946.

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 1919 Quebec: no archive photo of the 1900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. 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 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.

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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.