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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Akermans

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Akerman at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Akermans lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1348 Burrard Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Akkerman (no first name printed) 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D A Le Beau at 1332 and S H Tuplin at 1352. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    274 East 20th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • H Akerman, a clerk at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Badminton at 262. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3126 West 31st Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • V H Akerman, of Triangle Equipment and Triangle Truck Wrecking 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Grant at 3108 and A N McIntyre at 3142. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a clerk.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands and Riley Park. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Akkerman (no first name printed) at 1348 Burrard Street. H Akerman is listed at 274 East 20th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Harold Akerman there as the householder, a clerk at the CPR.

V H Akerman is listed at 3126 West 31st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Victor H Akerman there as the householder, of Triangle Equipment and Triangle Truck Wrecking.

Today

274 East 20th and 3126 West 31st still have their buildings from before 1946; 1348 Burrard (1981) has a newer building, 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Akermans

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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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.