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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

The Robertses

In the city directories 1905–1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Roberts at two addresses between 1905 and 1940, all on Quebec Street, with the close spelling Robertis. 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 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

    2527 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1905

    • J. H. Roberts 1905

    Next door in 1905: Mrs. William B. Steele at 2531. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6417 Quebec Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • H T Roberts, a canneryman 1940
    • Florence E Roberts, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Hiles at 6405 and S Ramsden at 6427. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a canneryman and a nurse.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Sunset. 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 1905 the directory lists J. H. Roberts at 2527 Quebec Street. H T Roberts is listed at 6417 Quebec 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Hilary T Roberts there as the householder, a canneryman, with Florence E Roberts, a nurse.

Today

6417 Quebec (2010) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2527 Quebec, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 6417 Quebec: no archive photo of the 6400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Robertses

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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.