A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview
The Robinsons
In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses
The directories print five people named Robinson at two addresses in 1940, all on Victoria 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: four Robinsons at 3347 Victoria Drive in 1940. The directories print the name on 145 other streets too, all listed on the Robinson name's own page.
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Where the Robinsons lived
- 1
1710 Victoria Drive
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Frank H Robinson, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: L E Holliday at 1706 and L E Reid at 1718. The block, door by door
- 2
3347 Victoria Drive
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- G L Robinson, a carpenter at Woodward's 1940
- George S Robinson, a clerk at the Bank of N S 1940
- Hugh S Robinson, a warehouseman for J C Wilson 1940
- Jennie A Robinson, a clerk at Woodward's 1940
Next door in 1940: W J Murray at 3381. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all five: a clerk (2), a carpenter, a laborer and a warehouseman. Two of them worked for Woodward's.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland 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 Frank H Robinson at 1710 Victoria Drive, a laborer. G L Robinson is listed at 3347 Victoria 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 George L Robinson there as the householder, a carpenter at Woodward's, with George S Robinson, a clerk at the Bank of N S, Hugh S Robinson, a warehouseman for J C Wilson, and Jennie A Robinson, a clerk at Woodward's.
Today
1710 Victoria Drive and 3347 Victoria Drive 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.
- Robinson Frank H lab1710 Victoria Drive, p. 526
- *Robinson G L3347 Victoria Drive, p. 162
- Robinson Geo L carp Woodwards3347 Victoria Drive, p. 527
- Robinson Geo S clk Bk of N S3347 Victoria Drive, p. 527
- Robinson Hugh S whsmn J C Wilson3347 Victoria Drive, p. 527
- Robinson Jennie A clk Woodwards3347 Victoria Drive, p. 527
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Robinsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Robinson 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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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.