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A family name on Maple Street, Kitsilano, Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale

The Larsons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Larson at two addresses in 1940, all on Maple Street, with the close spelling Larsson. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Larson name's own page.

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Where the Larsons 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

    1708 Maple Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • L Larson, a mechanic at Victoria Tile 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Shigeta at 1720. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2116 Maple Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Frank M Larson, a helper at Brandram-Henderson 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Johnson at 2112. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a helper and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2). 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 L Larson at 1708 Maple Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Levi Larson there as the householder, a mechanic at Victoria Tile. The 1940 name section lists Frank M Larson at 2116 Maple Street, a helper at Brandram-Henderson.

Today

2116 Maple still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1708 Maple, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it
1912 Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it. Not at the house at 1708 Maple: no archive photo of the 1700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P90.08. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Larsons

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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.