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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bokmas

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Bokma at one address, 5929 Elm Street in Kerrisdale, in 1940.

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The Bokmas at home

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).
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    5929 Elm Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • G Bokma, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: C N Hurst at 5909 and W W Crompton at 5949. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for the one person: a fisherman.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kerrisdale. 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

In 1940 the directory lists G Bokma at 5929 Elm Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gerben Bokma there as the householder, a fisherman.

Today

5929 Elm still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record.

Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street
1911 or 1912 Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street. Not at the house at 5929 Elm: no archive photo of the 5900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-1033. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Bokmas

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Bokma 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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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.