A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Keamos
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Keamo at one address, 2162 East Hastings Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.
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The Keamos at home
Woodland
- 1
2162 East Hastings Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- J G Keamo, a longshoreman 1940
- Elmer G Keamo, a millworker 1940
Next door in 1940: W Ellis at 2152. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a longshoreman and a millworker.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists J G Keamo at 2162 East Hastings 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 James G Keamo there as the householder, a longshoreman, with Elmer G Keamo, a millworker.
Today
The City no longer lists 2162 East Hastings, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Keamo J G2162 East Hastings, p. 75
- Keamo Elmer G mlwkr2162 East Hastings, p. 315
- Keamo Jas G lngshmn2162 East Hastings, p. 315
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Keamos
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Keamo 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.