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A family name on Howe Street, Downtown

The Nelsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Nelson at three addresses in 1940, all on Howe Street, with the close spellings Neilson and Nielson. 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 134 other streets too, all listed on the Nelson name's own page.

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Where the Nelsons 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

    1053 Howe Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • C Nelson, rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M J Ransom at 1051 and A Buttner at 1059. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1107 Howe Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A J Nelson 1940
    • Mrs Sadie Nelson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Elener at 1117. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1124 Howe Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • C Nielson, a mechanic for A B Balderston 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Corbeil at 1116 and Miss M Krause at 1126. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 C Nelson, rooms to let, at 1053 Howe Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists A J Nelson at 1107 Howe Street, with Mrs Sadie Nelson. The 1940 name section lists C Nielson at 1124 Howe Street, a mechanic for A B Balderston.

Today

The City no longer lists 1053 Howe, 1107 Howe and 1124 Howe, so those buildings are 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

The book of the Nelsons

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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.