A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Cooks
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Cook at two addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue. 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 93 other streets too, all listed on the Cook name's own page.
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Where the Cooks lived
- 1
430 East 12th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- D K Cook, a shipper at McNeely's 1940
- Winifred U Cook, a stenographer at Davidson & Wright 1940
Next door in 1940: H W Blinkhorn at 422 and J L Stark at 436. The block, door by door
- 2
1736 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Ralph H Cook, a draftsman 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss R R Lewis at 1732 and J Lamont at 1742. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a draftsman, a shipper and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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 D K Cook at 430 East 12th 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 David K Cook there as the householder, a shipper at McNeely's, with Winifred U Cook, a stenographer at Davidson & Wright. The 1940 name section lists Ralph H Cook at 1736 East 12th Avenue, a draftsman.
Today
430 East 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1736 East 12th, so that building is 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.
- *Cook D K430 East 12th, p. 206
- Cook David K shpr McNeely's430 East 12th, p. 124
- Cook Winifred U sten Davidson & Wright430 East 12th, p. 124
- Cook Ralph H drftsmn1736 East 12th, p. 124
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Cooks
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Cook 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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.