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A family name on West 28th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Dicksons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Dickson at one address, 2905 West 28th Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, 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

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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    2905 West 28th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • F Dickson, a student at UBC 1940
    • Geoffrey A Dickson, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Bellhouse at 2915. The block, door by door

What they did

Two of them worked for UBC.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 F Dickson at 2905 West 28th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Dickson there as the householder, an associate professor at UBC, with Frank A Dickson, a student at UBC, and Geoffrey A Dickson, a student at UBC.

Today

The City no longer lists 2905 West 28th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 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.