A family name on East 38th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Elliotts
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Elliott at one address, 1961 East 38th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940, with the close spelling Elliot. The directories print the name on 97 other streets too, all listed on the Elliott name's own page.
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The Elliotts at home
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1961 East 38th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- F S Elliott, a machinist at the CPR 1940
- John A Elliott, a fireman 1940
- Maxine S Elliott, a stenographer for D W F MacDonald 1940
- Thomas F Elliott, an apprentice at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: P H Collin at 1951 and W Knutson at 1975. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: an apprentice, a fireman, a machinist and a stenographer. Two of them worked for CPR.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 S Elliott at 1961 East 38th 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 Frederick S Elliott there as the householder, a machinist at the CPR, with John A Elliott, a fireman, Maxine S Elliott, a stenographer for D W F MacDonald, and Thomas F Elliott, an apprentice at the CPR.
Today
1961 East 38th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Elliott F S1961 East 38th, p. 254
- Elliott Fredk S mach CPR1961 East 38th, p. 181
- Elliott John A firmn1961 East 38th, p. 181
- Elliott Maxine S sten D W F MacDonald1961 East 38th, p. 181
- Elliott Thos F appr CPR1961 East 38th, p. 181
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Elliotts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Elliott 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 E. Want a name removed? Tell us.