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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hoags

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Hoag at four addresses in 1940 in Mount Pleasant. 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 Hoags 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

    73 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Elizabeth Hoag 1940
    • Harry H Hoag, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs P See at 65. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    870 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Ethel Hoag 1940

    Next door in 1940: S B Hansen at 868 and V A Daugherty at 876. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    31 West 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J C Hoag, a photographer 1940
    • Geraldine Hoag, a stenographer at Royal Trust 1940

    Next door in 1940: A C Hawbolt at 25 and Mrs E L MacDonald at 37. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    11 West Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Gertrude Hoag, a waitress 1940

    Next door in 1940: Ann Shoppe Grace at 13. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a logger, a photographer, a stenographer and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4). 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 Mrs Elizabeth Hoag at 73 East 6th Avenue, with Harry H Hoag, a logger. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Ethel Hoag at 870 East 8th Avenue. In 1940 the directory lists J C Hoag at 31 West 11th 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 lists J Clarke Hoag there as the householder, a photographer, with Geraldine Hoag, a stenographer at Royal Trust.

The 1940 name section lists Mrs Gertrude Hoag at 11 West Broadway, a waitress.

Today

31 West 11th and 11 West Broadway still have their buildings from before 1946, 31 West 11th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 73 East 6th (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 870 East 8th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Hoags

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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.