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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cookmans

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Cookman at two addresses in 1940 in Kitsilano. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Cookmans at 2622 West 5th in 1940.

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Where the Cookmans 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

    1936 West 15th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Maude M Cookman, a secretary at the Canadian Memorial Chapel 1940

    Next door in 1940: A F Barton at 1926 and Mrs E M Buchan at 1946. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2622 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • S H Cookman, a painter at Woodward's 1940
    • John H Cookman 1940
    • Laura M Cookman 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Ludovici at 2616 and J C Ashford at 2628. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a painter and a secretary.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Maude M Cookman at 1936 West 15th Avenue, a secretary at the Canadian Memorial Chapel. S H Cookman is listed at 2622 West 5th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Sam H Cookman there as the householder, a painter at Woodward's, with John H Cookman and Laura M Cookman.

Today

2622 West 5th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1936 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Cookmans

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.