A family name on West 45th Avenue, Kerrisdale and Oakridge
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 West 45th 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
2145 West 45th Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- Miss D L Cook 1940
- Dora L Cook 1940
Next door in 1940: G S Bradley at 2141 and J T Gaskin at 2155. The block, door by door
- 2
2267 West 45th Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- W T Cook, a branch manager at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940
Next door in 1940: G T Temple at 2279. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a branch manager.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kerrisdale (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 Miss D L Cook at 2145 West 45th 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 Dora L Cook there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists W T Cook at 2267 West 45th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists W Tasker Cook there as the householder, a branch manager at the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Today
2145 West 45th and 2267 West 45th still have their buildings from before 1946, 2145 West 45th on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Cook Miss D L2145 West 45th, p. 262
- Cook Dora L2145 West 45th, p. 124
- Cook W T2267 West 45th, p. 262
- Cook W Tasker br mgr CB of C2267 West 45th, 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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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.