A family name on Fraser Street, Sunset, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Brookses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Brooks at two addresses in 1940, all on Fraser Street, with the close spelling Brookes. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 56 other streets too, all listed on the Brooks name's own page.
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Where the Brookses lived
- 1
5704 Fraser Street
Sunset, 1940
- A W Brooks, a service station 1940
Next door in 1940: A W Brooks at 5720. The block, door by door
- 2
5720 Fraser Street
Sunset, 1940
- A W Brooks 1940
- Edmund J Brooks, an attendant for A W Brooks 1940
Next door in 1940: A W Brooks at 5704 and G H Batcheler at 5738. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an attendant.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Sunset (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
In 1940 the directory lists A W Brooks, a service station, at 5704 Fraser Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). A W Brooks is listed at 5720 Fraser Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edmund J Brooks there, an attendant for A W Brooks.
Today
5704 Fraser (1979) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5720 Fraser, so that building is 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.
- *Brooks A W serv sta5704 Fraser, p. 52
- *Brooks A W5720 Fraser, p. 52
- Brooks Edmund J atdt A W Brooks5720 Fraser, p. 71
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Brookses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Brooks 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.