A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Dubens
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Duben at one address, 1731 East 37th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.
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The Dubens at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1731 East 37th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J E Duben, a chief cook at Imperial Oil 1940
Next door in 1940: W Armstrong at 1725 and W Ferguson at 1735. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a chief cook.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists J E Duben at 1731 East 37th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John E Duben there as the householder, a chief cook at Imperial Oil.
Today
1731 East 37th (1987) has a newer building, 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.
- Duben J E1731 East 37th, p. 253
- Duben John E chf cook Imp Oil1731 East 37th, p. 170
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Dubens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Duben 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.