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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hecimoviches

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Hecimovich at two addresses in 1940 in Strathcona. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Hecimoviches 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

    1127 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • M Hecimovich, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Mudrakoff at 1123 and D Morrison at 1131. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1039 Union Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • S Hecimovich, a fisherman 1940
    • Annie Hecimovich, a packer at Woodland Manufacturing 1940

    Next door in 1940: L J Dumaresq at 1031 and C Hammond at 1043. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a fisherman, a logger and a packer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 M Hecimovich at 1127 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mike Hecimovich there as the householder, a logger. In 1940 the directory lists S Hecimovich at 1039 Union Street. The 1940 name section lists Steph Hecimovich there as the householder, a fisherman, with Steve Hecimovich, and Annie Hecimovich, a packer at Woodland Manufacturing.

Today

1127 East Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1039 Union, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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

The book of the Hecimoviches

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Hecimovich 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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Another name, or a house

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.