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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Ducommuns

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Ducommun 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 Ducommuns at 3919 West 19th in 1940.

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Where the Ducommuns 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

    3919 West 19th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C A Ducommun, a branch manager at Copp The Shoe Man 1940
    • Emile Ducommun, retired 1940
    • Melvin C Ducommun, a branch manager at Copp The Shoe Man 1940

    Next door in 1940: N M McCallum at 3913 and J F Park at 3925. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2776 West 29th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • H E Ducommun, a service inspector at Burroughs Adding Machinery 1940

    Next door in 1940: J B Sutherland at 2766 and R Harley at 2786. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a branch manager (2) and a service inspector. Two of them worked for Copp The Shoe Man.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and 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 C A Ducommun at 3919 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 Charles A Ducommun there as the householder, a branch manager at Copp The Shoe Man, with Emile Ducommun, retired, and Melvin C Ducommun, a branch manager at Copp The Shoe Man. In 1940 the directory lists H E Ducommun at 2776 West 29th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Henry E Ducommun there as the householder, a service inspector at Burroughs Adding Machinery.

Today

3919 West 19th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1929 by the City's record; 2776 West 29th (1979) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.