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A family name on East 4th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Johnsons

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at six addresses

The directories print nine people named Johnson at six addresses in 1940, all on East 4th Avenue, with the close spellings Johanson, Johannson and Johansson. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Johnsons at 137 East 4th in 1940. The directories print the name on 209 other streets too, all listed on the Johnson name's own page.

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Where the Johnsons 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

    58 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H Johnson, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Davis at 56 and R Mitchell at 60. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    137 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs E M Johnson, widow of J B 1940
    • Edith M Johnson 1940
    • Helen M Johnson, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Johnson, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Allaire at 125 and Mrs L McFarlane at 141. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1516 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Jerome A Johnson, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: C R Westrand at 1510 and T M Pickering at 1530. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1646 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F G Johnson, a master mariner 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Ellison at 1644 and L Marder at 1648. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1943 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs A Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: R D Morris at 1937 and J Smith at 1989. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    3442 East 4th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • C G Johnson, a floor layer at Parquet Floor 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Klockars at 3454. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the nine: a logger (2), a floor layer, a master mariner, a motorman and an operator. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (3), Mount Pleasant (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 H Johnson at 58 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harold Johnson there as the householder, a logger. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs E M Johnson at 137 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Edith M Johnson there as the householder, widow of J B, with Edith M Johnson, Helen M Johnson, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Johnson, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway.

The 1940 name section lists Jerome A Johnson at 1516 East 4th Avenue, a logger. F G Johnson is listed at 1646 East 4th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frederick G Johnson there as the householder, a master mariner. Mrs A Johnson is listed at 1943 East 4th Avenue 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).

In 1940 the directory lists C G Johnson at 3442 East 4th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Charles G Johnson there as the householder, a floor layer at Parquet Floor.

Today

1943 East 4th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1908 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 58 East 4th, 137 East 4th, 1516 East 4th and 1646 East 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 3442 East 4th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 13 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 J. Want a name removed? Tell us.