A family name on East 27th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Thomsons
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Thomson at one address, 2039 East 27th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940, with the close spellings Thomason and Thomasson. The directories print the name on 119 other streets too, all listed on the Thomson name's own page.
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The Thomsons at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
2039 East 27th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- A T Thomson, a postman 1940
Next door in 1940: W Kemp at 2027 and W G Banks at 2047. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a postman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 A T Thomson at 2039 East 27th 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 Alfred T Thomson there as the householder, a postman.
Today
2039 East 27th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1921 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Thomson A T2039 East 27th, p. 242
- Thomson Alfd T postmn2039 East 27th, p. 610
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Thomsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Thomson name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.