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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Daums

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Daum at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Daums 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

    585 East 52nd Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Kath Daum, widow of P 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Prout at 559. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    548 Thurlow Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • G A Daum, an elevator operator at the BC Mining Building 1940

    Next door in 1940: V Benna at 540 and Mrs I F Love at 550. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2686 West 14th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Adam Daum, an engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Lucas at 2642 and J I Marshall at 2696. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an elevator operator and an engineer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kitsilano and Sunset. 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 Kath Daum at 585 East 52nd Avenue, widow of P. G A Daum is listed at 548 Thurlow Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists George A Daum there as the householder, an elevator operator at the BC Mining Building. The 1940 name section lists Adam Daum at 2686 West 14th Avenue, an engineer.

Today

2686 West 14th (2013) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 548 Thurlow, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 585 East 52nd, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Daums

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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.