A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Dohanics
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Dohanic at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Dohanics lived
- 1
737 Beatty Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mike Dohanic, a miner 1940
Next door in 1940: Welsh F & Son at 733 and H Field at 743. The block, door by door
- 2
4712 Little Street
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J Dohanic, a warehouseman at Slade & Stewart 1940
Next door in 1940: F G Whiter at 4704 and R C Gillis at 4728. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a miner and a warehouseman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 Mike Dohanic at 737 Beatty Street, a miner. J Dohanic is listed at 4712 Little Street in 1940; 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 lists John Dohanic there as the householder, a warehouseman at Slade & Stewart.
Today
4712 Little (1998) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 737 Beatty, 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.
- Dohanic Mike miner737 Beatty, p. 163
- *Dohanic J4712 Little, p. 103
- Dohanic John whsmn Slade & Stewart4712 Little, p. 163
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Dohanics
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Dohanic 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.