A family name on East 17th Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Masons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Mason at two addresses in 1940, all on East 17th Avenue, with the close spellings Masson and Maison. 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 69 other streets too, all listed on the Mason name's own page.
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Where the Masons lived
- 1
235 East 17th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- Jessie Mason, widow of J 1940
Next door in 1940: D Goodall at 225 and Miss F M Sinclair at 241. The block, door by door
- 2
1286 East 17th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Walter A Mason, a messenger at the CP Telegraph 1940
Next door in 1940: G W Webster at 1264 and C W H Bird at 1296. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a messenger. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park. 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 Jessie Mason at 235 East 17th Avenue, widow of J. The 1940 name section lists Walter A Mason at 1286 East 17th Avenue, a messenger at the CP Telegraph.
Today
235 East 17th and 1286 East 17th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Mason Jessie wid J235 East 17th, p. 418
- Mason Walter A msngr CP Teleg1286 East 17th, p. 418
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Masons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Mason name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.