A family name on Marguerite Street, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy
The Patons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Paton at two addresses in 1940, all on Marguerite Street, with the close spelling Patton. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
- 1
4970 Marguerite Street
Shaughnessy, 1940
- Betty Paton, a maid for R A Wootten 1940
Next door in 1940: H F Angus at 4950 and D N Hossie at 4990. The block, door by door
- 2
6388 Marguerite Street
Kerrisdale, 1940
- Mrs M I Patton, widow of R S 1940
Next door in 1940: F W Harvie at 6362. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a maid. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy. 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 Betty Paton at 4970 Marguerite Street, a maid for R A Wootten. Mrs M I Patton is listed at 6388 Marguerite Street in 1940; 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 Mary I Patton there as the householder, widow of R S.
Today
4970 Marguerite and 6388 Marguerite still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Paton Betty maid R A Wootten4970 Marguerite, p. 482
- *Patton Mrs M I6388 Marguerite, p. 111
- Patton Mary I wid R S6388 Marguerite, p. 484
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Patons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Paton 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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.