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A family name on Graveley Street, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Frasers

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at four addresses

The directories print eight people named Fraser at four addresses in 1940, all on Graveley Street. 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 2136 Graveley 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1462 Graveley Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Clarence W Fraser, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J Atkinson at 1456 and D Ailon at 1470. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1931 Graveley Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • D Fraser, a patrol sergeant at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Mary Fraser, a hairdresser 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Ahone at 1923 and H L Sutton at 1937. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1950 Graveley Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W J Fraser, a secretary-treasurer at Crystal Dairy 1940
    • Mary A Fraser, widow of A 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Scott at 1942 and W Forsyth at 1956. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2136 Graveley Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W G Fraser, a plasterer 1940
    • Alex Fraser, a plasterer 1940
    • Isabella G Fraser, an operator at Weir Manufacturing 1940

    Next door in 1940: P H Camerman at 2134 and W B Rawson at 2144. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for seven of the eight: a plasterer (2), a hairdresser, an operator, a patrol sergeant, a salesman and a secretary-treasurer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (4). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Clarence W Fraser at 1462 Graveley Street, a salesman. D Fraser is listed at 1931 Graveley Street in 1940; 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 Duncan Fraser there as the householder, a patrol sergeant at the City of Vancouver, with Mary Fraser, a hairdresser.

W J Fraser is listed at 1950 Graveley Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William J Fraser there as the householder, a secretary-treasurer at Crystal Dairy, with Mary A Fraser, widow of A. W G Fraser is listed at 2136 Graveley Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William G Fraser there as the householder, a plasterer, with Alex Fraser, a plasterer, and Isabella G Fraser, an operator at Weir Manufacturing.

Today

1462 Graveley, 1931 Graveley, 1950 Graveley and 2136 Graveley still have their buildings from before 1946, 1462 Graveley on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 11 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Frasers

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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.