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A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

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 West 3rd 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 most under one roof: three Robertses at 2556 West 3rd 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

    2494 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Edward Roberts, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: T S Smith at 2486. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2556 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A C Roberts, a garage superintendent at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Arthur K Roberts, a clerk at Hayes Manufacturing 1940
    • Stan C Roberts, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: F L Walker at 2546 and J W Edmonds at 2566. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3349 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • E F Roberts, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: W M Magee at 3343 and F Maehler at 3357. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a garage superintendent, a logger and an on active service.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (3). 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 Edward Roberts at 2494 West 3rd Avenue, on active service. A C Roberts is listed at 2556 West 3rd Avenue 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 lists Arthur C Roberts there as the householder, a garage superintendent at the City of Vancouver, with Arthur K Roberts, a clerk at Hayes Manufacturing, and Stan C Roberts, a student at UBC.

E F Roberts is listed at 3349 West 3rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Eric F Roberts there as the householder, a logger.

Today

2494 West 3rd, 2556 West 3rd and 3349 West 3rd still have their buildings from before 1946, 2556 West 3rd on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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 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.