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A family name on Parker Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Williamsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Williamson at one address, 1857 Parker Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940, with the close spelling Williamsen. The directories print the name on 63 other streets too, all listed on the Williamson name's own page.

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The Williamsons 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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    1857 Parker Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • H Williamson, in real estate 1940
    • Irene Williamson, a saleswoman 1940
    • Ken Williamson, a student at UBC 1940
    • Marguerita M Williamson, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: P Lakes at 1841 and T W Standlick at 1863. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a real estate, a saleswoman and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 H Williamson at 1857 Parker 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 Horace Williamson there as the householder, in real estate, with Irene Williamson, a saleswoman, Ken Williamson, a student at UBC, and Marguerita M Williamson, a school teacher.

Today

The City no longer lists 1857 Parker, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret
1932 Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret. Taken on the 1800 block; it doesn't single out the house at 1857 Parker. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4161. Public domain.

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 Williamsons

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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.