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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Morrisons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Morrison at four addresses in 1940, all on East 8th Avenue, with the close spelling Morison. 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 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    125 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C F Morrison, a millworker at Sitka Spruce Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Lee at 115 and F Marriott at 135. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    379 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • R Morrison, a steelworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Goldberg at 377 and W Waddell at 385. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1457 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • C R Morrison, a superintendent at Shurly Dietrich Atkins 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Cody at 1481. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1625 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J Morrison, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Clarke at 1615 and G Wright at 1645. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a millworker, a steelworker and a superintendent.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Mount Pleasant (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists C F Morrison at 125 East 8th Avenue, a millworker at Sitka Spruce Lumber. R Morrison is listed at 379 East 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Roderick Morrison there as the householder, a steelworker.

C R Morrison is listed at 1457 East 8th Avenue 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 Clinton R Morrison there as the householder, a superintendent at Shurly Dietrich Atkins. J Morrison is listed at 1625 East 8th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John Morrison there as the householder, retired.

Today

1625 East 8th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; 1457 East 8th (1978) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 125 East 8th and 379 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Morrisons

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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.