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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hoseasons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Hoseason at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Hoseasons 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

    317 Homer Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Cedric Hoseason 1940

    Next door in 1940: Apple Vendors Co-op at 319. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2833 Oak Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs B A Hoseason 1940
  3. 3

    1100 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • O Hoseason, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: T G O'Malley at 1120. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a motorman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Downtown. 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 Cedric Hoseason at 317 Homer Street. Mrs B A Hoseason is listed at 2833 Oak Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Beatrice A Hoseason there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists O Hoseason at 1100 West 16th Avenue, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

2833 Oak still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 317 Homer and 1100 West 16th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments
21 May 1929 Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments. Not at the house at 2833 Oak: no archive photo of the 2800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 453-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Hoseasons

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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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.