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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Emards

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Emard at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Emards 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

    904 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Orphire F Emard, a cook at the St Joseph's Oriental Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Soderberg at 910. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1931 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs S M Emard, widow of F 1940
    • Ernest Emard, a millworker at Hammond's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H Lees at 1929 and Mrs E Zacks at 1943. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    43 Powell Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • William Emard, a logger 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a cook, a logger and a millworker. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 Orphire F Emard at 904 East Cordova Street, a cook at the St Joseph's Oriental Hospital. Mrs S M Emard is listed at 1931 Napier Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Sarah M Emard there as the householder, widow of F, with Ernest Emard, a millworker at Hammond's. The 1940 name section lists William Emard at 43 Powell Street, a logger.

Today

1931 Napier and 43 Powell still have their buildings from before 1946; 904 East Cordova (1978) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A family with a covered wagon, their horses and a foal on Napier Street
About 1918 A family with a covered wagon, their horses and a foal on Napier Street. Not at the house at 1931 Napier: no archive photo of the 1900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, SGN 1548. Public domain.

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 Emards

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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 E. Want a name removed? Tell us.