A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
The Dawsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Dawson at two addresses in 1940, all on West Pender 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
- 1
319 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- J A Dawson, a manufacturers agent 1940
- H H Dawson, a manufacturers agent 1940
Next door in 1940: Boden Auction Rooms at 317 and A J Ainsworth at 321. The block, door by door
- 2
1115 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Ray Dawson, a shipper at Burns & Co 1940
Next door in 1940: L A Hickson at 1113 and G A Southgate at 1117. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a shipper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (2). 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 H H Dawson, a manufacturers agent, at 319 West Pender Street. By 1940 it is J A Dawson, a manufacturers agent. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ray Dawson at 1115 West Pender Street, a shipper at Burns & Co.
Today
319 West Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1908 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1115 West Pender, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Dawson J A mfrs agt319 West Pender, p. 129
- Dawson H H mfrs agt319 West Pender, p. 129
- Dawson Ray shpr Burns & Co1115 West Pender, p. 153
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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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.