A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Dobreffs
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Dobreff at one address, 3465 West 19th Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940.
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The Dobreffs at home
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3465 West 19th Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- J T Dobreff, proprietor of Minto Shoe Repairs 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M H Smith at 3455. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 J T Dobreff at 3465 West 19th Avenue; 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 Jacob T Dobreff there as the householder, proprietor of Minto Shoe Repairs.
Today
3465 West 19th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Dobreff J T3465 West 19th, p. 229
- Dobreff Jacob T prop Minto Shoe Reprs3465 West 19th, p. 162
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Dobreffs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Dobreff 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.