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A family name on East 31st Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park

The Scotts

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Scott at three addresses in 1940, all on East 31st Avenue. 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 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    655 East 31st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • R C Scott, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Chapman at 647 and J Bangs at 661. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    795 East 31st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • D B Scott, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Mary M Scott, an operator at Fit-Well Garments 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Canton at 765. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    858 East 31st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J Scott, a mechanic at the Smith Sheet Metal Works 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Cass at 850 and R W Lambley at 866. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a carpenter, a clerk, a mechanic and an operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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

In 1940 the directory lists R C Scott at 655 East 31st Avenue; 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 Robert C Scott there as the householder, a carpenter. In 1940 the directory lists D B Scott at 795 East 31st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists David B Scott there as the householder, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company, with Mary M Scott, an operator at Fit-Well Garments.

In 1940 the directory lists J Scott at 858 East 31st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John Scott there as the householder, a mechanic at the Smith Sheet Metal Works.

Today

655 East 31st, 795 East 31st and 858 East 31st still have their buildings from before 1946, 858 East 31st on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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

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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.