A family name on West 49th Avenue, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Dunbar-Southlands
The Robinsons
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Robinson at one address, 2326 West 49th Avenue in Kerrisdale, 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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The Robinsons at home
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2326 West 49th Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- K F Robinson, of Kerrisdale Realty 1940
- Doris E Robinson, a school teacher 1940
- Edna M Robinson, a stenographer at Elgood Edward & Co 1940
- Harold A Robinson, a salesman 1940
Next door in 1940: G W Roe at 2308 and F W Story at 2358. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a salesman, a school teacher and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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
In 1940 the directory lists K F Robinson at 2326 West 49th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Kirk F Robinson there as the householder, of Kerrisdale Realty, with Doris E Robinson, a school teacher, Edna M Robinson, a stenographer at Elgood Edward & Co, and Harold A Robinson, a salesman.
Today
2326 West 49th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Robinson K F2326 West 49th, p. 265
- Robinson Doris E sch tchr2326 West 49th, p. 526
- Robinson Edna M sten Elgood Edward & Co2326 West 49th, p. 526
- Robinson Harold A slsmn2326 West 49th, p. 527
- Robinson Kirk F of Kerrisdale Realty2326 West 49th, p. 527
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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.