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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Parsonages

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Parsonage at five addresses in 1940 in five of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Parsonages 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

    1346 Cotton Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Henry Parsonage, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Yarco at 1330. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    311 East 64th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • William A Personage, a driver at Burke Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: H A Guiver at 333. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    21 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • H Parsonage, a welder at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940

    Next door in 1940: Knowltons Ltd at 15 and Dodson Rooms at 23. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2638 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Elizabeth M Parsonage, proprietor of Betty Belle Shoppe 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L M Butler at 2630 and A Kennedy at 2646. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    5319 Windsor Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Parsonage, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge 1940

    Next door in 1940: H E Woodrow at 5311 and J Morgan at 5333. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a steelworker (2), a driver, a proprietor and a welder. Two of them worked for Hamilton Bridge.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Kitsilano and Sunset. 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 Henry Parsonage at 1346 Cotton Drive, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge. The 1940 name section lists William A Personage at 311 East 64th Avenue, a driver at Burke Lumber. The 1940 name section lists H Parsonage at 21 East Hastings Street, a welder at the Burrard Dry Dock. The 1940 name section lists Elizabeth M Parsonage at 2638 West 7th Avenue, proprietor of Betty Belle Shoppe.

In 1940 the directory lists A Parsonage at 5319 Windsor Street; 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 Arthur Parsonage there as the householder, a steelworker at Hamilton Bridge.

Today

21 East Hastings, 2638 West 7th and 5319 Windsor still have their buildings from before 1946, 2638 West 7th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 311 East 64th (1977) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1346 Cotton Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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

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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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.