A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Dinahans
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Dinahan at one address, 2580 West 8th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Dinahans at home
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2580 West 8th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- M T Dinahan, a longshoreman 1940
- John E Dinahan 1940
- Robert A Dinahan, a winder at British Ropes 1940
Next door in 1940: P T Combolos at 2566 and R H Dowling at 2584. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a longshoreman and a winder.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 M T Dinahan at 2580 West 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Merle T Dinahan there as the householder, a longshoreman, with John E Dinahan, and Robert A Dinahan, a winder at British Ropes.
Today
2580 West 8th 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.
- Dinahan M T2580 West 8th, p. 196
- Dinahan John E2580 West 8th, p. 160
- Dinahan Merle T lngshmn2580 West 8th, p. 160
- Dinahan Robt A winder British Ropes2580 West 8th, p. 160
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Dinahans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Dinahan 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.