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A family name on East 6th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Parsonses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Parsons at three addresses in 1940, all on East 6th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Parsonses at 376 East 6th in 1940. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Parsons name's own page.

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Where the Parsonses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    376 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J A Parsons, a police inspector at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Gladys Parsons, a clerk at Woodward's 1940
    • Milton A Parsons, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Borregard at 368 and G C Parsons at 378. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    378 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • G C Parsons, a plumber 1940
    • Marjorie E Parsons 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Parsons at 376 and E Murray at 380. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1602 East 6th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J Parsons 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Lamountaine at 1606. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a clerk (2), a plumber and a police inspector.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and 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 J A Parsons at 376 East 6th 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 A Parsons there as the householder, a police inspector at the City of Vancouver, with Gladys Parsons, a clerk at Woodward's, and Milton A Parsons, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1940 the directory lists G C Parsons at 378 East 6th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists George C Parsons there as the householder, a plumber, with Marjorie E Parsons.

In 1940 the directory lists J Parsons at 1602 East 6th Avenue.

Today

1602 East 6th (1978) has a newer building, by the City's record; for 376 East 6th and 378 East 6th, their pages say what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.