A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Dragers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Drager at one address, 124 West Broadway in Mount Pleasant, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Dragers at home
Pleasant
- 1
124 West Broadway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- A I Drager, a driver at Pacific Sawdust Supply 1940
- Bernard Drager, a carpenter 1940
- Otto A Drager 1940
Next door in 1940: F R Keefe at 118 and A E Byrd at 136. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a carpenter and a driver.
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 A I Drager at 124 West Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Archie I Drager there as the householder, a driver at Pacific Sawdust Supply, with Bernard Drager, a carpenter, and Otto A Drager.
Today
The City no longer lists 124 West Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Drager A I124 West Broadway, p. 16
- Drager Archie I drvr Pacific Sawdust Supply124 West Broadway, p. 168
- Drager Bernard carp124 West Broadway, p. 168
- Drager Otto A124 West Broadway, p. 168
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Dragers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Drager 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.