A family name on Trinity Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland
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 Trinity Street, 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
2795 Trinity Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- E Mason, an orderly at the Shaughnessy Hospital Canadian Government 1940
Next door in 1940: A Larsen at 2785. The block, door by door
- 2
2933 Trinity Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Dorothy E Mason, a packer at Canada Packers 1940
Next door in 1940: A S Simpson at 2925 and D MacKay at 2937. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an orderly and a packer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (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 E Mason at 2795 Trinity Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ernest Mason there as the householder, an orderly at the Shaughnessy Hospital Canadian Government. The 1940 name section lists Dorothy E Mason at 2933 Trinity Street, a packer at Canada Packers.
Today
2795 Trinity and 2933 Trinity still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Mason E2795 Trinity, p. 157
- Mason Ernest orderly Shaugh Hosp Can Govt2795 Trinity, p. 418
- Mason Dorothy E pkr Canada Pkrs2933 Trinity, p. 418
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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Another name, or a house
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.