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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Iwais

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Iwai at one address, 3212 Dunbar Street in Kitsilano, in 1940.

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The Iwais at home

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).
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    3212 Dunbar Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R Iwai, a millworker 1940
    • Mrs Shizu Iwai, proprietor of Olympic Cleaners 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hillcrest Serv Gar at 3200 and P Taylor at 3218. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a millworker and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kitsilano. 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 R Iwai at 3212 Dunbar Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Rokuro Iwai there as the householder, a millworker, with Mrs Shizu Iwai, proprietor of Olympic Cleaners.

Today

The City no longer lists 3212 Dunbar, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Shops on the west side of the 3200 block of Dunbar Street, among them Dunbar Pharmacy and Kay's Market, with cars out front
About 1927 Shops on the west side of the 3200 block of Dunbar Street, among them Dunbar Pharmacy and Kay's Market, with cars out front. Taken on the 3200 block; it doesn't single out the house at 3212 Dunbar. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.670. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Iwais

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Iwai 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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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.