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A family name on East Georgia Street, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Lawrences

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Lawrence at two addresses in 1940, all on East Georgia Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Lawrences at 1528 East Georgia in 1940. The directories print the name on 57 other streets too, all listed on the Lawrence name's own page.

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Where the Lawrences 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

    249 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • E Lawrence, a porter at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Georgia Lndy at 245 and Coast Growers Prod Co at 251. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1528 East Georgia Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J G Lawrence 1940
    • Joseph C Lawrence 1940
    • Mary E Lawrence, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: 4 listings at 1534. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a porter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 E Lawrence at 249 East Georgia Street, a porter at the CPR. J G Lawrence is listed at 1528 East Georgia Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Joseph G Lawrence there as the householder, with Joseph C Lawrence, and Mary E Lawrence, a student.

Today

249 East Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1528 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Lawrences

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.