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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Morrisons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Morrison at two addresses in 1940, all on West 1st Avenue, 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 most under one roof: three Morrisons at 1858 West 1st in 1940. 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

    1858 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J S Morrison, a grader at Overseas Wood Products 1940
    • Don Morrison, a clerk at Dominion Rubber 1940
    • Roy G Morrison, a student at Maitland Maitland Remnant & Hutcheson 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Lutz at 1852 and S D Taylor at 1862. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4573 West 1st Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J M Morrison, a timekeeper at Greater Vancouver Water District 1940
    • Kath Morrison, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Eastham at 4569. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a grader, a nurse and a timekeeper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano and West Point Grey. 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 J S Morrison at 1858 West 1st 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 John S Morrison there as the householder, a grader at Overseas Wood Products, with Don Morrison, a clerk at Dominion Rubber, and Roy G Morrison, a student at Maitland Maitland Remnant & Hutcheson. In 1940 the directory lists J M Morrison at 4573 West 1st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John M Morrison there as the householder, a timekeeper at Greater Vancouver Water District, with Kath Morrison, a nurse.

Today

4573 West 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1918 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1858 West 1st, so that building is 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, street section

The book of the Morrisons

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.