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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Faoros

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Faoro at three addresses in 1940 in Strathcona. 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 Faoros 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

    659 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Serafino Faoro, a puller at Bissinger & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Yochlowitz at 651. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    436 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Secondo Faoro, a puller at Bissinger & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Mortimer at 430 and “Orientals” at 442. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    538 Union Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • F Faoro, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Visintin at 532 and Foo Wong at 542. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a puller (2) and a laborer. Two of them worked for Bissinger & Co.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3). 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 Serafino Faoro at 659 East Georgia Street as the householder, a puller at Bissinger & Co. The 1940 name section lists Secondo Faoro at 436 East Hastings Street, a puller at Bissinger & Co. In 1940 the directory lists F Faoro at 538 Union Street; 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 lists Frank Faoro there as the householder, a laborer at Bissinger & Co, with Frank Faoro Jr, a laborer.

Today

659 East Georgia and 538 Union still have their buildings from before 1946, 538 Union on the Vancouver Heritage Register; for 436 East Hastings, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

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

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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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.