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A family name on East 4th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Robertses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Roberts at three addresses in 1940, all on East 4th Avenue, with the close spelling Robertis. 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 126 other streets too, all listed on the Roberts name's own page.

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Where the Robertses 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

    266 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs R Roberts, widow of T C 1940
    • Bernard Roberts, who worked for Restmore 1940

    Next door in 1940: C B Green at 260 and E Leask at 272. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1586 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R B Roberts, a meat cutter at Canada Packers 1940

    Next door in 1940: H A Copley at 1576. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2061 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs A Roberts, widow of A E 1940
    • Ernest S Roberts, a journalist 1940

    Next door in 1940: J McDonald at 2051. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an employee, a journalist and a meat cutter. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Mount Pleasant. 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 Mrs R Roberts at 266 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Rose Roberts there as the householder, widow of T C, with Bernard Roberts, who worked for Restmore. In 1940 the directory lists R B Roberts at 1586 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Ron B Roberts there as the householder, a meat cutter at Canada Packers.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A Roberts at 2061 East 4th 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 lists Agnes Roberts there as the householder, widow of A E, with Ernest S Roberts, a journalist.

Today

2061 East 4th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 266 East 4th and 1586 East 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.