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A family name on Davie Street, West End and Downtown

The Moffats

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Moffat at two addresses in 1940, all on Davie Street, with the close spelling Moffatt. 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: three Moffats at 905 Davie in 1940. The directories print the name on 42 other streets too, all listed on the Moffat name's own page.

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Where the Moffats 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

    905 Davie Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss V Moffatt 1940
    • Violet Moffatt 1940
    • John W Moffatt, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Wall at 903 and Mrs E Rice at 907. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1144 Davie Street

    West End, 1940

    • B D Moffatt, a salesman at Bowell McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Peterson at 1142 and J A Lucas at 1146. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a carpenter and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown 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

In 1940 the directory lists Miss V Moffatt at 905 Davie Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Violet Moffatt there as the householder, with John W Moffatt, a carpenter. In 1940 the directory lists B D Moffatt at 1144 Davie Street. The 1940 name section lists Bern D Moffatt there as the householder, a salesman at Bowell McDonald.

Today

The City no longer lists 905 Davie and 1144 Davie, so those buildings are 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, street section

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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.