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A family name on Bidwell Street, West End

The Frasers

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Fraser at two addresses in 1940, all on Bidwell Street. 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 138 other streets too, all listed on the Fraser name's own page.

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Where the Frasers 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

    1236 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss B H Fraser 1940
    • Bernice H Fraser, a stenographer at the Pacific Mills 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W Smith at 1232 and Mrs M Szekely at 1250. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1260 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs C Fraser, widow of W W 1940
    • Christine A Fraser, a physician-radiologist at N Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: A R Dale at 1256 and W D Arnott at 1264. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a physician-radiologist and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 Miss B H Fraser at 1236 Bidwell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Bernice H Fraser there as the householder, a stenographer at the Pacific Mills. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs C Fraser at 1260 Bidwell Street. The 1940 name section lists Cath Fraser there as the householder, widow of W W, with Christine A Fraser, a physician-radiologist at N Vancouver General Hospital.

Today

1236 Bidwell (1976) and 1260 Bidwell (1964) have newer buildings, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Frasers

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.