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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Kachkowskys

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Kachkowsky at one address, 915 Keefer Street in Strathcona, in 1940.

Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.

The Kachkowskys at home

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    915 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • F Kachkowsky, a laborer 1940
    • Annie Kachkowsky 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Dale at 911 and E H Embleton at 917. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Strathcona. 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 F Kachkowsky at 915 Keefer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Kachkowsky there as the householder, a laborer, with Annie Kachkowsky.

Today

The City no longer lists 915 Keefer, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street
1914 The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street. Not at the house at 915 Keefer: no archive photo of the 900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2021-034.288, photo by Yucho Chow Studio. 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 Kachkowskys

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Kachkowsky 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 K. Want a name removed? Tell us.