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A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Williamsons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Williamson at one address, 3759 West 23rd Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, 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

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    3759 West 23rd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W Williamson, a meat cutter at Spencer's 1940
    • Alex R Williamson, a freight hand at the CPR 1940
    • Herbert J Williamson, a plumber 1940
    • Marion G Williamson, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: E P Riley at 3737 and A R Beveridge at 3771. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a freight hand, a meat cutter, an operator and a plumber.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 W Williamson at 3759 West 23rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Williamson there as the householder, a checker at the CPR, with William Williamson Jr, a meat cutter at Spencer's, Alex R Williamson, a freight hand at the CPR, Herbert J Williamson, a plumber, and Marion G Williamson, an operator at the BC Telephone.

Today

3759 West 23rd (1996) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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.