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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

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 Victoria Drive. 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 4790 Victoria Drive 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

    178 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Leonard K Fraser, a meat cutter at Strathcona Meat Market 1940

    Next door in 1940: F C Campbell at 116. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3131 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Fraser, a carpenter at the CNR 1940
    • Winnifred I Fraser, a waitress 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Reed at 3121. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4790 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J R Fraser, a house mover 1940
    • Dorothy B Fraser, a student 1940
    • Evelyn L Fraser 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Lettiers at 4784. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    5158 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J Fraser, a carpenter 1940
    • W Gordon Fraser, an office boy at the Customs 1940

    Next door in 1940: R W Third at 5142. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the eight: a carpenter (2), a house mover, a meat cutter, an office boy and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (3) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Leonard K Fraser at 178 Victoria Drive, a meat cutter at Strathcona Meat Market. A Fraser is listed at 3131 Victoria Drive 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 Andrew Fraser there as the householder, a carpenter at the CNR, with Winnifred I Fraser, a waitress.

J R Fraser, a house mover, is listed at 4790 Victoria Drive in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James R Fraser there, a house mover, with Dorothy B Fraser, a student, and Evelyn L Fraser. J Fraser is listed at 5158 Victoria Drive in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James Fraser there as the householder, a carpenter, with W Gordon Fraser, an office boy at the Customs.

Today

4790 Victoria Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; 3131 Victoria Drive (2016) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 178 Victoria Drive and 5158 Victoria Drive, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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

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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.