A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Di Guistinis
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Di Guistini at one address, 1913 Scotia Street in Mount Pleasant, in 1940.
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The Di Guistinis at home
Pleasant
- 1
1913 Scotia Street
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- C Di Guistini, a laborer 1940
- Jean Di Guistini 1940
- Thomas Di Guistini, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: G Knezovich at 1907 and R J Brown at 1919. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laborer (2).
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 C Di Guistini at 1913 Scotia Street; 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 Carmin Di Guistini there as the householder, a laborer, with Jean Di Guistini, and Thomas Di Guistini, a laborer.
Today
1913 Scotia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Di Guistini C1913 Scotia, p. 148
- Di Guistini Carmin lab1913 Scotia, p. 160
- Di Guistini Jean1913 Scotia, p. 160
- Di Guistini Thos lab1913 Scotia, p. 160
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Di Guistinis
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Di Guistini 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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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.