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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Katches

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at one address

The directories print seven people named Katch at one address, 1324 Hornby Street in Downtown, in 1940.

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The Katches 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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    1324 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • D Katch 1940
    • Anne Katch, a checker 1940
    • Cath T Katch, a clerk at Commodore Cabaret 1940
    • Lily Katch, a stenographer for Kelly Douglas 1940
    • Nick T Katch, a serviceman at Vancouver Motors 1940
    • Olga E Katch, a waitress at Woodward's 1940
    • Sonia Katch, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Kanuka at 1322 and J Townsend at 1326. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a checker, a clerk, a serviceman, a stenographer and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Downtown. 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 D Katch at 1324 Hornby Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Denis Katch there as the householder, with Anne Katch, a checker, Cath T Katch, a clerk at Commodore Cabaret, Lily Katch, a stenographer for Kelly Douglas, Nick T Katch, a serviceman at Vancouver Motors, Olga E Katch, a waitress at Woodward's, and Sonia Katch, a student.

Today

The City no longer lists 1324 Hornby, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Katches

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Katch 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.