A family name on Franklin Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise
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 Franklin 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
- 1
1836 Franklin Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- S W Douglas, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: F M Hughes at 1832 and J E Baker at 1860. The block, door by door
- 2
3485 Franklin Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- J F Douglas, an engineer 1940
Next door in 1940: E E Bennett at 3473 and W Grant at 3495. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an engineer and a longshoreman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 S W Douglas at 1836 Franklin Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Stewart W Douglas there as the householder, a longshoreman. In 1940 the directory lists J F Douglas at 3485 Franklin 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 James F Douglas there as the householder, an engineer.
Today
The City no longer lists 1836 Franklin and 3485 Franklin, so those buildings are 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.
- Douglas S W1836 Franklin, p. 51
- Douglas Stewart W lngshmn1836 Franklin, p. 167
- *Douglas J F3485 Franklin, p. 52
- Douglas Jas F eng3485 Franklin, p. 166
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Douglases
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Douglas 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.