A family name on Spencer Street, Renfrew-Collingwood
The Dicksons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Dickson at one address, 4928 Spencer Street in Renfrew-Collingwood, in 1940, with the close spelling Dickieson. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Dickson name's own page.
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The Dicksons at home
Collingwood
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4928 Spencer Street
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- H E Dickson, a longshoreman 1940
- Roy K Dickson, an apprentice at Carleton Pharmacy 1940
Next door in 1940: G Bonner at 4950. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an apprentice and a longshoreman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 E Dickson at 4928 Spencer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harvey E Dickson there as the householder, a longshoreman, with Roy K Dickson, an apprentice at Carleton Pharmacy.
Today
4928 Spencer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Dickson H E4928 Spencer, p. 153
- Dickson Harvey E lngshmn4928 Spencer, p. 159
- Dickson Roy K appr Carleton Pharmacy4928 Spencer, p. 160
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Dicksons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Dickson 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.