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A family name on Davie Street, West End and Downtown

The Morrisons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Morrison at two addresses in 1940, all on Davie Street, with the close spelling Morison. 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 111 other streets too, all listed on the Morrison name's own page.

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Where the Morrisons 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

    676 Davie Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A Morrison, a sheet metal worker at Campbell & Grill 1940

    Next door in 1940: D C MacLure at 636. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1531 Davie Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss E Morrison 1940
    • Eleanor Morrison, a stenographer at Huron & Erie Mortgage 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a sheet metal worker and a stenographer.

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 A Morrison at 676 Davie Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Archibald Morrison there as the householder, a sheet metal worker at Campbell & Grill. In 1940 the directory lists Miss E Morrison at 1531 Davie Street. The 1940 name section lists Eleanor Morrison there as the householder, a stenographer at Huron & Erie Mortgage.

Today

676 Davie still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1531 Davie, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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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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.