A family name on East 13th Avenue, Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Cooks
In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses
The directories print five people named Cook at three addresses in 1940, all on East 13th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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
6 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs D L Cook 1940
Next door in 1940: F Moyls at 4 and W Ferguson at 20. The block, door by door
- 2
649 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- A R Cook, a postman 1940
- A Bernice Cook 1940
Next door in 1940: T J Stoddart at 643 and Mrs W M Chubaty at 663. The block, door by door
- 3
1774 East 13th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Mrs J Cook 1940
- John E Cook, a salesman for E Lipsett 1940
Next door in 1940: C E Ounsted at 1766 and A E Calvert at 1784. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a postman and a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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
In 1940 the directory lists Mrs D L Cook at 6 East 13th 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 Mrs Dorothy L Cook there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists A R Cook at 649 East 13th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Arthur R Cook there as the householder, a postman, with A Bernice Cook.
In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J Cook at 1774 East 13th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Jessie Cook there as the householder, with John E Cook, a salesman for E Lipsett.
Today
1774 East 13th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 6 East 13th and 649 East 13th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Cook Mrs D L6 East 13th, p. 210
- Cook Mrs Dorothy L6 East 13th, p. 124
- *Cook A R649 East 13th, p. 210
- Cook A Bernice649 East 13th, p. 123
- Cook Arth R postmn649 East 13th, p. 124
- *Cook Mrs J1774 East 13th, p. 211
- Cook Mrs Jessie1774 East 13th, p. 124
- Cook John E slsmn E Lipsett1774 East 13th, p. 124
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Cooks
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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.