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A family name on East 1st Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Scotts

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Scott at two addresses in 1940, all on East 1st 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 1426 East 1st 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

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

    284 East 1st Avenue

    Strathcona, 1940

    • J Scott, a salesman 1940
    • Minnie J Scott 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Durante at 276 and W Woodhead at 288. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1426 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W W Scott, a bookkeeper 1940
    • W Mary Scott 1940
    • W Philip Scott, a laborer at BC Sugar 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Traff at 1416 and S Sugiura at 1436. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a bookkeeper, a laborer and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 J Scott at 284 East 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James Scott there as the householder, a salesman, with Minnie J Scott. In 1940 the directory lists W W Scott at 1426 East 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Walter W Scott there as the householder, a bookkeeper, with W Mary Scott, and W Philip Scott, a laborer at BC Sugar.

Today

The City no longer lists 284 East 1st and 1426 East 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Scotts

Every directory, as one book

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.