A family name on Denman Street, West End
The Cookes
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Cooke at one address, 975 Denman Street in West End, in 1940. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Cooke name's own page.
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The Cookes at home
- 1
975 Denman Street
West End, 1940
- R H Cooke, a movie operator at the Paradise Theatre 1940
Next door in 1940: R T Kinchler at 961 and Beauty Salon Silverdene at 981. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a movie operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West End. 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 R H Cooke at 975 Denman Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ray H Cooke there as the householder, a movie operator at the Paradise Theatre.
Today
The City no longer lists 975 Denman, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Cooke R H975 Denman, p. 42
- Cooke Ray H movie opr Paradise Thea975 Denman, p. 124
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Cookes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Cooke 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.