A family name on Graveley Street, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Nicholsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Nicholson at one address, 1648 Graveley Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940. The directories print the name on 58 other streets too, all listed on the Nicholson name's own page.
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The Nicholsons at home
Woodland
- 1
1648 Graveley Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Mrs L E Nicholson, widow of G W 1940
- Doris H A Nicholson 1940
- George H Nicholson, a helper at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
Next door in 1940: P H Johnson at 1640 and Mrs P M Sanderson at 1656. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a helper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
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 Mrs L E Nicholson at 1648 Graveley Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lillian E Nicholson there as the householder, widow of G W, with Doris H A Nicholson, and George H Nicholson, a helper at the Hudson's Bay Company.
Today
The City no longer lists 1648 Graveley, 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.
- Nicholson Mrs L E1648 Graveley, p. 69
- Nicholson Doris H A1648 Graveley, p. 459
- Nicholson Geo H hlpr HBC1648 Graveley, p. 459
- Nicholson Lillian E wid G W1648 Graveley, p. 460
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Nicholsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Nicholson 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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.