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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bakkens

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Bakken at three addresses in 1940 in Downtown. 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 Bakkens lived

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).
  1. 1

    721 Cambie Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Gunar Bakken 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs F M Vincent at 719 and Mrs V Grundy at 741. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    530 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • R Bakken 1940

    Next door in 1940: Reston Electric at 524. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    536 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Rolf Bakken, proprietor of Hornby Mansions 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Bakken at 530 and Willingham & Jergens at 550. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 Gunar Bakken at 721 Cambie Street. R Bakken is listed at 530 Hornby Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Rolf Bakken at 536 Hornby Street as the householder, proprietor of Hornby Mansions.

Today

530 Hornby (1988) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 721 Cambie and 536 Hornby, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Bakkens

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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.