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A family name on Slocan Street, Renfrew-Collingwood and Hastings-Sunrise

The Scotts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Scott at two addresses in 1940, all on Slocan Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    3808 Slocan Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • W O Scott, an assistant superintendent at Dominion Bridge 1940
  2. 2

    5171 Slocan Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • G Scott, a gardener 1940
    • Claude S Scott, a shipper at Shilvock-Parkes 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Tebby at 5139 and J H Miles at 5195. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an assistant superintendent, a gardener and a shipper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Renfrew-Collingwood (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

In 1940 the directory lists W O Scott at 3808 Slocan Street; 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 O Scott there as the householder, an assistant superintendent at Dominion Bridge. In 1940 the directory lists G Scott at 5171 Slocan Street. The 1940 name section lists George Scott there as the householder, a gardener, with Claude S Scott, a shipper at Shilvock-Parkes.

Today

3808 Slocan still has its building from before 1946, dated 1936 by the City's record; 5171 Slocan (1977) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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.