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A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Masons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Mason at three addresses in 1940, all on West 12th Avenue, with the close spellings Masson and Maison. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

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

    2496 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J E Masson 1940
    • Edna Masson, a cashier at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs F D Walker at 2486. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2730 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • T Masson, an engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: E E Stark at 2726 and J G Nicholson at 2740. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3611 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Dorothy G Mason, a clerk 1940
    • Marjorie M Mason, a bookkeeper at the BC District Telegraph 1940

    Next door in 1940: B R Bland at 3617. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a bookkeeper, a cashier, a clerk and an engineer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 J E Masson at 2496 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John E Masson there as the householder, with Edna Masson, a cashier at Spencer's. In 1940 the directory lists T Masson at 2730 West 12th Avenue; 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 lists Thomas Masson there as the householder, an engineer.

The 1940 name section lists Dorothy G Mason at 3611 West 12th Avenue, a clerk, with Marjorie M Mason, a bookkeeper at the BC District Telegraph.

Today

2496 West 12th, 2730 West 12th and 3611 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946.

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 Masons

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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.