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A family name on Venables Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Robertses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Roberts at two addresses in 1940, all on Venables 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 most under one roof: four Robertses at 2117 Venables in 1940. 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

    2117 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J L Roberts, a laborer 1940
    • Gertrude Roberts, a maid 1940
    • Nellie Roberts, a maid 1940
    • William H Roberts, a millworker at Hammond's 1940

    Next door in 1940: S J Burns at 2109 and F J Stroup at 2123. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2122 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • N N Roberts, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Osborne at 2116 and R C Boyce at 2124. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a maid (2), a laborer, a logger and a millworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 J L Roberts at 2117 Venables Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John L Roberts there as the householder, a laborer, with Gertrude Roberts, a maid, Nellie Roberts, a maid, and William H Roberts, a millworker at Hammond's. In 1940 the directory lists N N Roberts at 2122 Venables Street. The 1940 name section lists Nels N Roberts there as the householder, a logger.

Today

2117 Venables and 2122 Venables 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, 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.