A family name on Ferndale Street, Grandview-Woodland
The Mortons
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Morton at one address, 1927 Ferndale Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940, with the close spelling Moreton. The directories print the name on 55 other streets too, all listed on the Morton name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Mortons at home
Woodland
- 1
1927 Ferndale Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- R W Morton, a painter at Begg Motor 1940
Next door in 1940: A E Summers at 1923 and W G Murray at 1937. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a painter.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 R W Morton at 1927 Ferndale Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ralph W Morton there as the householder, a painter at Begg Motor.
Today
1927 Ferndale still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Morton R W1927 Ferndale, p. 50
- Morton Ralph W pntr Begg Motor1927 Ferndale, p. 444
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Mortons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Morton name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.