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A family name on West 19th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Brookses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Brooks at two addresses in 1940, all on West 19th Avenue, 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

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

    3863 West 19th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • H A Brooks, a guard at the Customs 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Lee at 3857 and R Archibald at 3869. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3996 West 19th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Mrs Sarah Brooks 1940

    Next door in 1940: J G Dyer at 3990. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a guard.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (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 H A Brooks at 3863 West 19th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Harry A Brooks there as the householder, a guard at the Customs. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Sarah Brooks at 3996 West 19th Avenue.

Today

3863 West 19th (1995) and 3996 West 19th (2021) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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, street section

The book of the Brookses

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.