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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

The Pattersons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Patterson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 16th Avenue, with the close spellings Peterson, Paterson and Petterson. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: five Pattersons at 2135 West 16th in 1940. 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

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

    1565 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Alice E Patterson, a bookkeeper 1940

    Next door in 1940: ottawa court at 1551 and gloucester court at 1575. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2135 West 16th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • F B Patterson, a barber 1940
    • Anna G Patterson, a telephone operator at Simmons 1940
    • Bruce Patterson, a salesman at P Miller 1940
    • Franklina S Patterson, a dressmaker 1940
    • Virginia I Patterson, a clerk at the Royal Bank 1940

    Next door in 1940: T N Bugden at 2115 and W L Merilees at 2145. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all six: a barber, a bookkeeper, a clerk, a dressmaker, a salesman and a telephone operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Fairview. 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 Alice E Patterson at 1565 West 16th Avenue, a bookkeeper. F B Patterson is listed at 2135 West 16th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists F Bruce Patterson there as the householder, a barber, with Anna G Patterson, a telephone operator at Simmons, Bruce Patterson, a salesman at P Miller, Franklina S Patterson, a dressmaker, and Virginia I Patterson, a clerk at the Royal Bank.

Today

1565 West 16th and 2135 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Pattersons

Every directory, as one book

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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.