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A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown

The Frasers

In the city directories 1940 · six people at six addresses

The directories print six people named Fraser at six addresses in 1940, all on West Pender Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

    319 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • B N Fraser, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Boden Auction Rooms at 317 and A J Ainsworth at 321. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    402 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Leaseholds Fraser 1940

    Next door in 1940: McGregor Johnston & Thomas Ltd at 414. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    921 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Doug A Fraser, a salesman at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940

    Next door in 1940: Registration Bureau Stenographers at 911 and Weeks & Co Ltd at 923. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    940 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • John E Fraser, a seaman for J Galt 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lundberg A Co at 938 and L J Mahrer at 942. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1322 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs Mabel Fraser 1940

    Next door in 1940: R V McCarter at 1328. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    1374 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • K Fraser, a printer 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Saranchuk at 1370 and Mrs J N Brummell at 1376. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: a salesman and a seaman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (6). 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 B N Fraser, a manufacturers agent, at 319 West Pender Street. Leaseholds Fraser is listed at 402 West Pender Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Doug A Fraser at 921 West Pender Street, a salesman at Macdonalds Consolidated. The 1940 name section lists John E Fraser at 940 West Pender Street, a seaman for J Galt.

The 1940 name section lists Mrs Mabel Fraser at 1322 West Pender Street. K Fraser, a printer, is listed at 1374 West Pender Street in 1940.

Today

319 West Pender, 402 West Pender and 921 West Pender still have their buildings from before 1946, 402 West Pender on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 940 West Pender, 1322 West Pender and 1374 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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.