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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Tilsons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Tilson at one address, 3875 Laurel Street in South Cambie, in 1940.

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The Tilsons 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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    3875 Laurel Street

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Mrs B S Tilson, widow of C W 1940
    • Cynthia Tilson 1940
    • Ritchie W Tilson, a sub manager at the Province 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Shaw at 3885. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a sub manager. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in South Cambie. 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 Mrs B S Tilson at 3875 Laurel Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Bertha S Tilson there as the householder, widow of C W, with Cynthia Tilson, and Ritchie W Tilson, a sub manager at the Province.

Today

3875 Laurel still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.

Two men with tennis racquets on the step of the B.C. Electric Lawn Tennis Club at 41st Avenue and Laurel Street
About 1913 Two men with tennis racquets on the step of the B.C. Electric Lawn Tennis Club at 41st Avenue and Laurel Street. Not at the house at 3875 Laurel: no archive photo of the 3800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 935. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Tilsons

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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.