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A family name on Melville Street, Downtown

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 Melville Street, 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: three Johnsons at 1050 Melville 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1029 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Oldcroft at 1025 and Mrs M Rosse at 1033. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1042 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss Johnson 1940
    • Johnson, an an 1940

    Next door in 1940: McDonald Bowell at 1040 and F C Moore at 1044. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1047 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Hector Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M C Doy at 1045 and Mrs K L Mulleny at 1057. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1050 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Evelyn Johnson, a domestic 1940
    • Helen Johnson, a domestic 1940
    • Mrs Johanna Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: F C Moore at 1044 and J A Morrice at 1052. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1133 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Albert Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Palmer at 1129 and Melville Manor at 1149. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    1270 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs F Johnson, who kept rooms to let 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the nine: a domestic (2) and an an.

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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Johnson at 1029 Melville Street. The 1940 name section lists Miss Johnson at 1042 Melville Street, with Johnson, an an. The 1940 name section lists Hector Johnson at 1047 Melville Street. The 1940 name section lists Evelyn Johnson at 1050 Melville Street, a domestic, with Helen Johnson, a domestic, and Mrs Johanna Johnson.

The 1940 name section lists Albert Johnson at 1133 Melville Street. Mrs F Johnson, rooms to let, is listed at 1270 Melville Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Fredereka Johnson there, who kept rooms to let.

Today

1133 Melville (2020) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1029 Melville, 1042 Melville, 1047 Melville, 1050 Melville and 1270 Melville, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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 Johnsons

Every directory, as one book

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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.