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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Mattisons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Mattison at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Mattisons 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

    1041 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Arthur Mattison 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Simmers at 1033 and Mrs R E Wray at 1047. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1349 Cotton Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J C Mattison 1940
    • Allen Mattison 1940

    Next door in 1940: E A Edwards at 1337. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1240 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J C Mattison, in tobacco 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Reid at 1236 and Wo Sam at 1242. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and West End. 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 Arthur Mattison at 1041 Comox Street. J C Mattison is listed at 1349 Cotton Drive in 1940; 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 James C Mattison there as the householder, with Allen Mattison. J C Mattison, in tobacco, is listed at 1240 Granville Street in 1940.

Today

1041 Comox and 1349 Cotton Drive still have their buildings from before 1946, 1041 Comox on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1240 Granville, 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 Mattisons

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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.