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A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Mathesons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Matheson at two addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue, with the close spelling Mathieson. 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: four Mathesons at 1463 East 10th in 1940. The directories print the name on 85 other streets too, all listed on the Matheson name's own page.

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Where the Mathesons lived

  1. 1

    1437 East 10th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Mathieson, a clerk at the Post Office 1940
    • Margaret F Mathieson, a typist at the Dominion Income Tax 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Ross at 1423 and B J Yard at 1439. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1463 East 10th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs M Matheson, widow of D 1940
    • Don A Matheson 1940
    • Ian Matheson, a carpenter 1940
    • Roderick Matheson, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: G B Ion at 1469. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a carpenter (2), a clerk and a typist. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 A Mathieson at 1437 East 10th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred Mathieson there as the householder, a clerk at the Post Office, with Margaret F Mathieson, a typist at the Dominion Income Tax. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M Matheson at 1463 East 10th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Marion Matheson there as the householder, widow of D, with Don A Matheson, Ian Matheson, a carpenter, and Roderick Matheson, a carpenter.

Today

1437 East 10th and 1463 East 10th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1463 East 10th on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Mathesons

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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.