A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Pattersons
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Patterson at four addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street, with the close spellings Peterson, Paterson and Petterson. 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 160 other streets too, all listed on the Patterson name's own page.
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Where the Pattersons lived
- 1
67 East Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Sam Patterson, a carpenter 1940
Next door in 1940: Lunch White at 65 and dickson's imptg at 71. The block, door by door
- 2
456 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Carl Peterson 1940
Next door in 1940: J P Nelson at 454 and A Lantz at 458. The block, door by door
- 3
504 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- W Peterson, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: West Coast Trading at 502 and R Hoshino at 508. The block, door by door
- 4
769 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Rudolph Peterson, a logger 1940
Next door in 1940: N Pishak at 765 and Donuts Eatmor at 771. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a carpenter, a logger and a longshoreman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (3) and Downtown. 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 Sam Patterson at 67 East Hastings Street, a carpenter. The 1940 name section lists Carl Peterson at 456 East Hastings Street. In 1940 the directory lists W Peterson at 504 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Walter Peterson there as the householder, a longshoreman.
The 1940 name section lists Rudolph Peterson at 769 East Hastings Street, a logger.
Today
456 East Hastings, 504 East Hastings and 769 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 67 East Hastings, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Patterson Sam carp67 East Hastings, p. 483
- Peterson Carl456 East Hastings, p. 491
- Peterson W504 East Hastings, p. 74
- Peterson Walter lngshmn504 East Hastings, p. 491
- Peterson Rudolph logr769 East Hastings, p. 491
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Pattersons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Patterson 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.