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A family name on East 13th Avenue, Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Robertsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Robertson at three addresses in 1940, all on East 13th Avenue. 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 150 other streets too, all listed on the Robertson name's own page.

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Where the Robertsons 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

    589 East 13th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Alex Robertson, a driver at Hanbury Coal & Wood 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Edwards at 569 and J S McBain at 591. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    630 East 13th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J W Robertson, a pipeman at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Mary C D Robertson, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: J McIntosh at 624 and A MacLean at 636. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2063 East 13th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • G M Robertson, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: V W Dalziel at 2055. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a carpenter, a driver, a pipeman and a ward assistant.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 Alex Robertson at 589 East 13th Avenue, a driver at Hanbury Coal & Wood. J W Robertson is listed at 630 East 13th 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 James W Robertson there as the householder, a pipeman at the City of Vancouver, with Mary C D Robertson, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital.

G M Robertson is listed at 2063 East 13th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists George M Robertson there as the householder, a carpenter.

Today

589 East 13th, 630 East 13th and 2063 East 13th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Robertsons

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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.