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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Kangases

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Kangas at four addresses in 1940 in three 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 Kangases 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

    227 Carrall Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Jonas Kangas, a janitor at the Fraser Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Crystal Cafe at 225 and Outfitters Reliable at 231. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2224 Garden Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Charles Kangas 1940

    Next door in 1940: C D Getchell at 2236. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    434 Glen Drive

    Strathcona, 1940

    • H Kangas, a logger 1940
  4. 4

    517 Heatley Avenue

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Hilja Kangas, a waitress for Muir Cafe 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C F Robinson at 501 and G Cacic at 527. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a janitor, a logger and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2), Downtown and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Jonas Kangas at 227 Carrall Street, a janitor at the Fraser Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Charles Kangas at 2224 Garden Drive. In 1940 the directory lists H Kangas at 434 Glen Drive. The 1940 name section lists Harry Kangas there as the householder, a logger.

The 1940 name section lists Hilja Kangas at 517 Heatley Avenue, a waitress for Muir Cafe.

Today

227 Carrall still has its building from before 1946, dated 1900 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2224 Garden Drive, 434 Glen Drive and 517 Heatley, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Kangases

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Kangas 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.