A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Decocks
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Decock at one address, 2562 Kingsway in Renfrew-Collingwood, in 1940.
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The Decocks at home
Collingwood
- 1
2562 Kingsway
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- G L Decock, a laborer 1940
- Gaston I Decock, a kilnman at Canadian White Pine 1940
Next door in 1940: G S Boyd at 2560 and Beauty Shoppe Katherine at 2564. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a kilnman and a laborer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 G L Decock at 2562 Kingsway; 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 Gaston L Decock there as the householder, a laborer, with Gaston I Decock, a kilnman at Canadian White Pine.
Today
The City no longer lists 2562 Kingsway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Decock G L2562 Kingsway, p. 98
- Decock Gaston I kilnmn Can White Pine2562 Kingsway, p. 154
- Decock Gaston L lab2562 Kingsway, p. 154
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Decocks
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Decock 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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.