
1950 Nelson Street was on the south side of Nelson Street, midway between Gilford Street and Chilco Street.
Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 69, Lot 11.



There are two references to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched February 9, 2019].
District: | Vancouver |
Permit: | |
Owner: | Matherson, J. P. |
Architect: | Matherson, J. P. |
Builder: | Matherson, J. P. |
Legal Address: | DL: 185 Block: 69 Sub: Resub: Lot: 11 |
Date (Y-M-D): | 1904-05-11 |
Street Number: | [1950] |
Street Name: | Nelson Street |
Value: | $3,500.00 |
Remarks: | Frame dwelling |
Reference ID: | VN-8256-8257-20 |
District: | Vancouver |
Permit: | 10084 |
Owner: | Noritake, T. [Teigo] |
Architect: | Self |
Builder: | Lonergan, W. |
Legal Address: | DL: 185 Block: 69 Sub: Resub: Lot: 11 |
Date (Y-M-D): | 1919-04-14 |
Street Number: | 1950 |
Street Name: | Nelson Street |
Value: | $175.00 |
Remarks: | Repairs; garage [BCR]; [added legal desc.] |
Reference ID: | VN-1357-1358-9 |
Vancouver directory listings from 1907 to 1920.
1907 to 1918 | Stocks, William |
1919 to 1920 | Noritake, Teigo |
The house continued as a private residence until the 1940s.
In 1941, the Kodama family was living in the house.

The house continued as a rooming house until the mid-1950s.

In May 1957, the contents of the house were for sale.

Also in May 1957, house-wreckers demolished 1950 Nelson Street, along with 1934 Nelson Street, which was next door.

By about 1958 a new apartment building appeared on the former sites of 1934 Nelson Street and 1950 Nelson Street. (The address of the new building was 1940 Nelson Street.)


In 1989, the City of Vancouver received an application to build an eight-storey apartment building at 1940 Nelson Street.

It appears that this project did not go ahead, and that the property became part of the redevelopment of 1928 Nelson Street in 1993.
![1900 block Nelson Street, south side; Vanmapp, City of Vancouver; http://vanmapp.vancouver.ca/pubvanmap_net/default.aspx. [Includes 1912 Goad’s map of Vancouver and property addresses in 2019.]](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/1900-block-nelson-street-south-side-vanmapp-city-of-vancouver.jpg?w=656)

Sources
Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians, edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross, Pamela Sugiman; McGill-Queen’s University Press, unpaged; https://books.google.com/books?id=tTk2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89#v=onepage&q&f=false: “Besides the boats owned by absent owners, such as . . . Genichi Kodama, there were six boats that seemed to belong to interned people.”
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