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A family name on East 30th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Frasers

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at four addresses

The directories print seven people named Fraser at four addresses in 1940, all on East 30th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Frasers at 986 East 30th in 1940. 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    619 East 30th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • C F Fraser, a salesman for G Jackson 1940
    • May E Fraser, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: E L Turcotte at 611 and D MacKay at 627. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    950 East 30th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T H Fraser, a painter at Associated Dairies 1940

    Next door in 1940: C J Bjorke at 942 and A G Page at 958. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    986 East 30th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Miss C I Fraser 1940
    • Cath I Fraser 1940
    • John W Fraser, a quartermaster 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Bennett at 978 and J Harrop at 998. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1444 East 30th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs Enid Fraser 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the seven: a painter, a quartermaster and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (3) and Riley Park. 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 C F Fraser at 619 East 30th 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 Charles F Fraser there as the householder, a salesman for G Jackson, with May E Fraser, a student. In 1940 the directory lists T H Fraser at 950 East 30th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Thomas H Fraser there as the householder, a painter at Associated Dairies.

In 1940 the directory lists Miss C I Fraser at 986 East 30th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Cath I Fraser there as the householder, with John W Fraser, retired, and John W Fraser Jr, a quartermaster. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Enid Fraser at 1444 East 30th Avenue.

Today

619 East 30th, 950 East 30th, 986 East 30th and 1444 East 30th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.