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A family name on West 13th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Sutherlands

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at three addresses

The directories print eight people named Sutherland at three addresses in 1940, all on West 13th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Sutherlands at 733 West 13th in 1940. The directories print the name on 95 other streets too, all listed on the Sutherland name's own page.

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Where the Sutherlands 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

    733 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • C A Sutherland, a reporter 1940
    • A N Don Sutherland, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • C Robert Sutherland, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Lorne L A Sutherland 1940

    Next door in 1940: L B Jones at 725 and G R Barrett at 755. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3905 West 13th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Sutherland, a gardener 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Robinson at 3915. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4477 West 13th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • M Sutherland, retired 1940
    • Florence E Sutherland, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Henry M Sutherland, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Rutherford at 4473 and B Maxfield at 4487. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the eight: a conductor (2), a gardener, a reporter, a salesman and a saleswoman. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (2) and Fairview. 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 C A Sutherland at 733 West 13th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles A Sutherland there as the householder, a reporter, with A N Don Sutherland, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, C Robert Sutherland, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, and Lorne L A Sutherland. The 1940 name section lists Sutherland at 3905 West 13th Avenue, a gardener.

M Sutherland is listed at 4477 West 13th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Melville Sutherland there as the householder, retired, with Florence E Sutherland, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company, and Henry M Sutherland, a salesman.

Today

3905 West 13th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; 4477 West 13th (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 733 West 13th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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.