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A family name on Lanark Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Thomsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Thomson at one address, 4832 Lanark Street 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

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).
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    4832 Lanark Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Y Thomson, a carpenter 1940
    • Alan N Thomson, a carpenter 1940
    • David Thomson, a janitor at the Merchants Exchange Building 1940
    • Gordon A Thomson, an elevator operator at the Arts & Crafts Building 1940

    Next door in 1940: H C Waugh at 4824 and Mrs E Beckett at 4840. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a carpenter (2), an elevator operator and a janitor.

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 Y Thomson at 4832 Lanark 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 Alex Y Thomson there as the householder, a carpenter, with Alan N Thomson, a carpenter, David Thomson, a janitor at the Merchants Exchange Building, and Gordon A Thomson, an elevator operator at the Arts & Crafts Building.

Today

4832 Lanark still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 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 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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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.