A family name on East 13th Avenue, Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Scotts
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Scott at two addresses in 1940, all on East 13th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Scotts at 1248 East 13th in 1940. The directories print the name on 173 other streets too, all listed on the Scott name's own page.
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Where the Scotts lived
- 1
249 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Minnie Scott, a clerk at Prudential Insurance 1940
Next door in 1940: A McGee at 245 and W L Gauld at 253. The block, door by door
- 2
1248 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- W E Scott, a collector 1940
- Edward F Scott, a salesman at Woodward's 1940
- Gilbert O Scott, a delivery 1940
Next door in 1940: C L Wraith at 1242 and E S Holdsworth at 1252. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a clerk, a collector, a delivery and a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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 Minnie Scott at 249 East 13th Avenue, a clerk at Prudential Insurance. W E Scott is listed at 1248 East 13th 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 lists William E Scott there as the householder, a collector, with Edward F Scott, a salesman at Woodward's, and Gilbert O Scott, a delivery.
Today
The City no longer lists 249 East 13th and 1248 East 13th, so those buildings are 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.
- Scott Minnie clk Prudential Ins249 East 13th, p. 548
- *Scott W E1248 East 13th, p. 210
- Scott Edw F slsmn Woodwards1248 East 13th, p. 547
- Scott Gilbt O del1248 East 13th, p. 548
- Scott Wm E collr1248 East 13th, p. 549
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Scotts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Scott 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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.