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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

The Fergusons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Ferguson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 16th Avenue, with the close spelling Fergusson. 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: four Fergusons at 3515 West 16th in 1940. The directories print the name on 106 other streets too, all listed on the Ferguson name's own page.

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Where the Fergusons 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

    3515 West 16th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • D A Ferguson, a salesman 1940
    • Don G Ferguson, a cashier for Christie Brown 1940
    • John M Ferguson, a clerk at Vancouver Island Coals 1940
    • Margaret E Ferguson, a stenographer at Canadian-Bemis Bag 1940

    Next door in 1940: G M Thompson at 3505 and Mrs M Vandenberghe at 3527. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4413 West 16th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J Ferguson, a mechanic at the BC Government 1940
    • Margaret W Ferguson, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: C E Martin at 4405 and W K Brawnell at 4417. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a cashier, a clerk, a mechanic, a salesman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey. 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 D A Ferguson at 3515 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don A Ferguson there as the householder, a salesman, with Don G Ferguson, a cashier for Christie Brown, John M Ferguson, a clerk at Vancouver Island Coals, and Margaret E Ferguson, a stenographer at Canadian-Bemis Bag. In 1940 the directory lists J Ferguson at 4413 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists John Ferguson there as the householder, a mechanic at the BC Government, with Margaret W Ferguson, a student.

Today

3515 West 16th and 4413 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Fergusons

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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.