A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The Robsons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Robson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 3rd Avenue, with the close spelling Robison. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
2555 West 3rd Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- Vera Robson, a packer at National Biscuit 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss I S MacInnes at 2545 and J Y Reid at 2557. The block, door by door
- 2
3256 West 3rd Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- Ida A Robson, a cashier for Parsons Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: W S Martin at 3248. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a cashier and a packer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kitsilano (2). 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 Vera Robson at 2555 West 3rd Avenue, a packer at National Biscuit. The 1940 name section lists Ida A Robson at 3256 West 3rd Avenue, a cashier for Parsons Brown.
Today
2555 West 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3256 West 3rd, 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 Vera pkr Natl Biscuit2555 West 3rd, p. 528
- Robson Ida A cash Parsons Brown3256 West 3rd, p. 528
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.