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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Doucettes

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Doucette 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. The most under one roof: three Doucettes at 1298 West 10th in 1940.

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Where the Doucettes lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1060 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs Hattie Doucette 1940
    • Lorne Doucette 1940

    Next door in 1940: Balderston Motors (used cars) at 1056 and Dom Furn Chain Stores at 1062. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1298 West 10th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss G Doucette 1940
    • Genevieve Doucette, a hairdresser at Spencer's 1940
    • Inez Doucette, a hairdresser at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Stewart at 1278. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a hairdresser (2). Two of them worked for Spencer's.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Fairview. 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 Mrs Hattie Doucette at 1060 Granville Street, with Lorne Doucette. Miss G Doucette is listed at 1298 West 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Genevieve Doucette there as the householder, a hairdresser at Spencer's, with Inez Doucette, a hairdresser at Spencer's.

Today

1060 Granville and 1298 West 10th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1060 Granville on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Doucettes

Every directory, as one book

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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.