A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset
The Robsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Robson at three addresses in 1940, all on Main Street, with the close spelling Robison. 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 41 other streets too, all listed on the Robson name's own page.
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Where the Robsons lived
- 1
4288 Main Street
Riley Park, 1940
- William Robison, a helper at Jubilee Manufacturing 1940
Next door in 1940: W Mawhinney at 4252. The block, door by door
- 2
8185 Main Street
Sunset, 1940
- H J Robson, a delivery for D Owens 1940
Next door in 1940: R M Robson at 8195. The block, door by door
- 3
8195 Main Street
Sunset, 1940
- R M Robson, a grocer gas and oil 1940
Next door in 1940: H J Robson at 8185. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a delivery, a grocer gas and oil and a helper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Sunset (2) and Riley Park. 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 Robison at 4288 Main Street, a helper at Jubilee Manufacturing. H J Robson is listed at 8185 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Hector J Robson there as the householder, a delivery for D Owens.
R M Robson, in grocer and gas, is listed at 8195 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Robert M Robson there, a grocer gas and oil.
Today
4288 Main (1964) and 8185 Main (1970) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 8195 Main, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
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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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.