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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Rowletts

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Rowlett at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Rowletts lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    438 Robson Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • W B Rowlett, a baker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lew's Barber Shop at 434 and Puss in Boots at 450. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3250 West 28th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Miss E Rowlett 1940
    • Elsie Rowlett, a mender at the Jantzen Knit Mills 1940

    Next door in 1940: R T Millard at 3238 and D S W Nicholls at 3260. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2365 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • William B Rowlett, a baker 1940

    Next door in 1940: K T Field at 2353 and Mrs I Jacobsen at 2375. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a baker and a mender.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano. 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 W B Rowlett, a baker, at 438 Robson Street. Miss E Rowlett is listed at 3250 West 28th Avenue in 1940; 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 Elsie Rowlett there as the householder, a mender at the Jantzen Knit Mills. The 1940 name section lists William B Rowlett at 2365 West 7th Avenue, a baker.

Today

2365 West 7th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 3250 West 28th (2005) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 438 Robson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.