A family name on Bidwell Street, West End
The Robsons
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Robson at one address, 1199 Bidwell Street in West End, in 1940, with the close spelling Robison. The directories print the name on 41 other streets too, all listed on the Robson name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Robsons at home
- 1
1199 Bidwell Street
West End, 1940
- H S Robson, an accountant at Campbell & Grill 1940
Next door in 1940: L Banks at 1197. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: an accountant.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West End. 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 H S Robson at 1199 Bidwell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harold S Robson there as the householder, an accountant at Campbell & Grill.
Today
The City no longer lists 1199 Bidwell, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Robson H S1199 Bidwell, p. 13
- Robson Harold S acct Campbell & Grill1199 Bidwell, p. 528
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Robsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Robson 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.