A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Robertsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Robertson at three addresses in 1940, all on East 22nd 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
- 1
240 East 22nd Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- Stewart Robertson, a police officer at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: J D McMillan at 232 and E G Fisher at 250. The block, door by door
- 2
933 East 22nd Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- P Robertson, a warehouseman at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940
Next door in 1940: H W Smith at 939. The block, door by door
- 3
3649 East 22nd Avenue
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- W B Robertson, a helper at Canadian Boxes 1940
Next door in 1940: E H Hartley at 3641 and S R Toren at 3657. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a helper, a police officer and a warehouseman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Renfrew-Collingwood and Riley Park. 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 Stewart Robertson at 240 East 22nd Avenue, a police officer at the City of Vancouver. P Robertson is listed at 933 East 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Peter Robertson there as the householder, a warehouseman at Macdonalds Consolidated.
W B Robertson is listed at 3649 East 22nd 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 William B Robertson there as the householder, a helper at Canadian Boxes.
Today
240 East 22nd, 933 East 22nd and 3649 East 22nd still have their buildings from before 1946, 240 East 22nd on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Robertson Stewart police Van City240 East 22nd, p. 526
- Robertson P933 East 22nd, p. 234
- Robertson Peter whsmn Macdonalds Consol933 East 22nd, p. 525
- *Robertson W B3649 East 22nd, p. 235
- Robertson Wm B hlpr Can Boxes3649 East 22nd, p. 526
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Robertsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Robertson name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.