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A family name on East 45th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The Patons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Paton at three addresses in 1940, all on East 45th Avenue, with the close spelling Patton. 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 42 other streets too, all listed on the Paton name's own page.

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Where the Patons 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

    3347 East 45th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • H E Patton, a resawyer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: F R Northard at 3333 and T G Grindley at 3361. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3604 East 45th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • J Paton, a waiter at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: W McL Paton at 3628. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3628 East 45th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • W McL Paton 1940
    • Lachlan McL Paton, a hand instructor at Vancouver Roller Bowl 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Paton at 3604 and W Boyd at 3650. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a hand instructor, a resawyer and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Killarney (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 H E Patton at 3347 East 45th 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 Hazen E Patton there as the householder, a resawyer at Canadian White Pine. In 1940 the directory lists J Paton at 3604 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John Paton there as the householder, a waiter at the BC Coast Steamship Service.

In 1940 the directory lists W McL Paton at 3628 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William McL Paton there as the householder, with Lachlan McL Paton, a hand instructor at Vancouver Roller Bowl.

Today

3347 East 45th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 3628 East 45th (2015) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3604 East 45th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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.