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A family name on Woodland Drive, Grandview-Woodland and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Robertsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Robertson at two addresses in 1940, all on Woodland Drive. 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: three Robertsons at 2730 Woodland Drive in 1940. 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

    2528 Woodland Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • William Robertson, a cook at Ye Olde English Fish & Chips 1940

    Next door in 1940: Zion United Ch at 2524 and A I Ross at 2536. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2730 Woodland Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs P Robertson, widow of J H 1940
    • Annie McD Robertson 1940
    • Phillip Robertson, a mechanic at Simonds Canadian Saw 1940

    Next door in 1940: F G Quartermaine at 2722. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a cook and a mechanic. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Robertson at 2528 Woodland Drive, a cook at Ye Olde English Fish & Chips. Mrs P Robertson is listed at 2730 Woodland Drive 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 Peggy Robertson there as the householder, widow of J H, with Annie McD Robertson, and Phillip Robertson, a mechanic at Simonds Canadian Saw.

Today

2528 Woodland Drive and 2730 Woodland Drive still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 5 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

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.