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A family name on Odlum Drive, Grandview-Woodland

The Johnsons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Johnson at three addresses in 1940, all on Odlum Drive, 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 1229 Odlum Drive 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

    1007 Odlum Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • M E Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Johnson at 1009. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1009 Odlum Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • S Johnson, a sawyer at Anderson Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: odlum gro at 1007 and W M Bain at 1037. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1229 Odlum Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J A Johnson, a logger 1940
    • B J Johnson, a helper at Canadian-Bemis Bag 1940
    • Sylvia M Johnson 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Kamikura at 1239. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a helper, a logger and a sawyer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (3). 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 M E Johnson at 1007 Odlum Drive. S Johnson is listed at 1009 Odlum Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sven Johnson there as the householder, a sawyer at Anderson Bros.

J A Johnson is listed at 1229 Odlum Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John A Johnson there as the householder, a logger, with B J Johnson, a helper at Canadian-Bemis Bag, and Sylvia M Johnson.

Today

1007 Odlum Drive and 1009 Odlum Drive still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1229 Odlum Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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.