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A family name on West 15th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Douglases

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Douglas at two addresses in 1940, all on West 15th Avenue, 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 most under one roof: three Douglases at 1776 West 15th in 1940. 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

    1305 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • H Douglas, a chief factory inspector at the BC Government 1940

    Next door in 1940: granchester court at 1315. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1776 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • L D Douglas 1940
    • Gordon C Douglas, a student at UBC 1940
    • L Pierce Douglas, a student for Helliwell Maclachlan 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Butler at 1756 and A McTavish at 1786. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a chief factory inspector.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (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 Douglas at 1305 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Herbert Douglas there as the householder, a chief factory inspector at the BC Government, with H Ken Douglas, a student. In 1940 the directory lists L D Douglas at 1776 West 15th 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 lists Lionel D Douglas there as the householder, with Gordon C Douglas, a student at UBC, and L Pierce Douglas, a student for Helliwell Maclachlan.

Today

1305 West 15th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1776 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 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.