A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Bjorkes
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Bjorke at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Bjorkes lived
- 1
247 Abbott Street
Downtown, 1940
- Steve Bjork, retired 1940
Next door in 1940: Abbott House Assn at 233. The block, door by door
- 2
942 East 30th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- C J Bjorke, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: G Wright at 932 and T H Fraser at 950. The block, door by door
- 3
1165 Richards Street
Downtown, 1940
- Bjork 1940
Next door in 1940: Trade Roasting Co at 1169. 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 (2) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 Steve Bjork at 247 Abbott Street, retired. C J Bjorke is listed at 942 East 30th 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 Carl J Bjorke there as the householder, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Bjork at 1165 Richards Street.
Today
942 East 30th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 247 Abbott and 1165 Richards, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Bjork Steve retired247 Abbott, p. 50
- *Bjorke C J942 East 30th, p. 246
- Bjorke Carl J clk BCER942 East 30th, p. 50
- Bjork1165 Richards, p. 50
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Bjorkes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Bjorke name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.