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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Southcotts

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Southcott at four addresses in 1940 in four of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Southcotts 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

    6341 Adera Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Florence Southcott, a housekeeper for S H Small 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Grant at 6337 and J E McClellan at 6345. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1205 East 19th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C N Southcott, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Henderson at 1219. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3506 West 36th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J P Southcott, a president at J P Southcott & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: F E Kirchner at 3514. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2038 West 41st Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Miss E M Southcott 1940
    • Edith M Southcott 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Renton at 2026 and P Murphy at 2048. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a conductor, a housekeeper and a president.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy. 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 Florence Southcott at 6341 Adera Street, a housekeeper for S H Small. C N Southcott is listed at 1205 East 19th 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 Charles N Southcott there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway.

J P Southcott is listed at 3506 West 36th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James P Southcott there as the householder, a president at J P Southcott & Co. Miss E M Southcott is listed at 2038 West 41st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Edith M Southcott there as the householder.

Today

1205 East 19th and 3506 West 36th still have their buildings from before 1946; 2038 West 41st (1979) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 6341 Adera, so that building is 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Southcotts

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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.