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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Inamotos

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Inamoto at four 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 Inamotos 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

    561 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • U Inamoto, a massage 1940
    • Tamiye Inamoto, proprietor of Marine Dressmakers & Cleaners 1940

    Next door in 1940: K Kobayashi at 557 and Mrs L F Taylor at 565. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    245 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • N Inamoto, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Kariya at 243 and Seishindo Co at 249. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    246 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Z Inamoto, a transfer 1940

    Next door in 1940: K Ozawa at 244 and Bunka Shokai at 250. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    874 West 6th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Tojuro Inamoto, a millworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Johnson W S & D Factory at 854 and D Singh at 884. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a driver, a massage, a millworker and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3) and Fairview. 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 U Inamoto at 561 East Cordova 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Umatada Inamoto there, a printer, with Umatoro Inamoto, a massage, and Tamiye Inamoto, proprietor of Marine Dressmakers & Cleaners. The 1940 name section lists N Inamoto at 245 Powell Street, a driver. Z Inamoto, a transfer, is listed at 246 Powell Street in 1940.

The 1940 name section lists Tojuro Inamoto at 874 West 6th Avenue, a millworker.

Today

245 Powell (1991) and 874 West 6th (1994) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 246 Powell, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 561 East Cordova, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

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, street section

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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 I. Want a name removed? Tell us.