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A family name on East 5th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Scotts

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Scott at four addresses in 1940, all on East 5th 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    406 East 5th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W Scott, a director at Scott & Mackay 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Atkinson at 414. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2079 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • G R Scott, a waiter at the St Regis Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: C B Field at 2065 and A J Harraway at 2087. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2306 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • B Scott, a helper at Hammonds 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Yamaoka at 2312. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2511 East 5th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W A Scott, an engineer at Vancouver Ice & Cold Storage 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Church at 2505 and S G Tompkins at 2523. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a director, an engineer, a helper and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2), Hastings-Sunrise and Mount Pleasant. 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 Scott at 406 East 5th 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 William Scott there as the householder, a director at Scott & Mackay. In 1940 the directory lists G R Scott at 2079 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Gerald R Scott there as the householder, a waiter at the St Regis Hotel.

The 1940 name section lists B Scott at 2306 East 5th Avenue, a helper at Hammonds. W A Scott is listed at 2511 East 5th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William A Scott there as the householder, an engineer at Vancouver Ice & Cold Storage.

Today

406 East 5th, 2079 East 5th, 2306 East 5th and 2511 East 5th still have their buildings from before 1946.

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.