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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hamakawas

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Hamakawa at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Hamakawas 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

    110 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Masu Hamakawa, widow of T 1940

    Next door in 1940: Radio Lunch at 108 and Linwood Co at 112. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    944 West 6th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Y Hamakawa, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Shibata at 934 and V Fielding at 946. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1077 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs K Hamakawa 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Boyer at 1073 and S F Booth at 1081. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Downtown. 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 Masu Hamakawa at 110 East Hastings Street, widow of T. Y Hamakawa is listed at 944 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Yokeichi Hamakawa there as the householder, retired.

Mrs K Hamakawa is listed at 1077 West 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Koto Hamakawa there as the householder.

Today

The City no longer lists 110 East Hastings, 944 West 6th and 1077 West 7th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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 Hamakawas

Every directory, as one book

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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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.