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A family name on East Pender Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Pearsons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Pearson at two addresses in 1940, all on East Pender Street, with the close spellings Parson and Person. 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: four Pearsons at 3368 East Pender in 1940. The directories print the name on 94 other streets too, all listed on the Pearson name's own page.

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Where the Pearsons 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).
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    424 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • P Pearson, a cement finisher 1940

    Next door in 1940: Sales Orchard at 418 and Chee Wong Mrs Chong at 426. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3368 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Mrs V Pearson, widow of P 1940
    • George E Pearson 1940
    • Hazel M Pearson, who worked for Nelsons Laundries 1940
    • Irene I Pearson, an usher at the Orpheum Theatre 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Davis at 3360 and J W Hearn at 3376. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a cement finisher, an employee and an usher. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise and Strathcona. 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 P Pearson at 424 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Pete Pearson there as the householder, a cement finisher, with Pete Pearson, a cement finisher. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs V Pearson at 3368 East Pender Street; 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 Violet Pearson there as the householder, widow of P, with Violet Pearson, widow of P, George E Pearson, George E Pearson, Hazel M Pearson, who worked for Nelsons Laundries, Hazel M Pearson, who worked for Nelsons Laundries, Irene I Pearson, an usher at the Orpheum Theatre, and Irene I Pearson, an usher at the Orpheum Theatre.

Today

The City no longer lists 424 East Pender and 3368 East Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 3368 East Pender: no archive photo of the 3300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 12 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Pearsons

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.