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A family name on Bute Street, West End and Downtown

The Douglases

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Douglas at two addresses in 1940, all on Bute Street, with the close spelling Douglass. 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 69 other streets too, all listed on the Douglas name's own page.

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Where the Douglases 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

    779 Bute Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Grace Douglas 1940

    Next door in 1940: 5 listings at 759 and reo (the) at 787. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    989 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs F M Douglass, widow of A C 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Brown at 983 and U Thibaudeau at 995. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and West End. 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 Grace Douglas at 779 Bute Street. Mrs F M Douglass is listed at 989 Bute Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Florence M Douglass there as the householder, widow of A C.

Today

989 Bute still has its building from before 1946, dated 1901 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 779 Bute, 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.
1940

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

The book of the Douglases

Every directory, as one book

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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.