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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bilyks

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Bilyk at two addresses in 1940 in Strathcona. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: five Bilyks at 840 Union in 1940.

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Where the Bilyks 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

    606 Jackson Avenue

    Strathcona, 1940

    • James Bilyk, a sectionman at the CNR 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Abel at 602 and G Paris at 610. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    840 Union Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • P Bilyk, retired 1940
    • Dorothy Bilyk 1940
    • John Bilyk, a laborer 1940
    • Kathleen Bilyk 1940
    • Nellie Bilyk 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs R Casola at 836 and 5 listings at 848. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: a laborer and a sectionman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 James Bilyk at 606 Jackson Avenue, a sectionman at the CNR. P Bilyk is listed at 840 Union Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Paul Bilyk there as the householder, retired, with Dorothy Bilyk, John Bilyk, a laborer, Kathleen Bilyk, and Nellie Bilyk.

Today

840 Union still has its building from before 1946, dated 1907 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 606 Jackson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Bilyks

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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.