A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End
The Robinsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Robinson at three addresses in 1940, all on West Georgia Street. 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 145 other streets too, all listed on the Robinson name's own page.
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Where the Robinsons lived
- 1
849 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- Purvis W Robinson, a shipper 1940
Next door in 1940: georgia hotel at 801. The block, door by door
- 2
900 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- Dorothy Robinson, a seamstress at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Wilson W & J at 920. The block, door by door
- 3
1259 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- Louis Robinson 1940
Next door in 1940: W J Morris at 1241 and L Dixon at 1269. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a seamstress and a shipper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 Purvis W Robinson at 849 West Georgia Street, a shipper. The 1940 name section lists Dorothy Robinson at 900 West Georgia Street, a seamstress at the Vancouver Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Louis Robinson at 1259 West Georgia Street.
Today
900 West Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1933 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 849 West Georgia and 1259 West Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Robinson Purvis W shpr Co-op Whol Soc849 West Georgia, p. 527
- Robinson Dorothy smstrs Van Hotel900 West Georgia, p. 526
- Robinson Louis1259 West Georgia, 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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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.