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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Kinoshitas

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Kinoshita at four addresses in 1940 in two 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 Kinoshitas 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

    554 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • J W Kinoshita, a clerk at the Royal Bank 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Inouye at 546 and T Jinde at 560. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    566 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • R Kinoshita, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Jinde at 560 and H Fukui at 574. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    333 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Z Kinoshita, a salesman at Maikawa Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Nimi at 331 and Ebisuzaki Co at 337. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1498 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Norryoshi Kinoshita, proprietor of Kino Cleaners & Dyers 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a clerk, a driver, a proprietor and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3) and 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 J W Kinoshita at 554 East Cordova Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Jenichi W Kinoshita there as the householder, a clerk at the Royal Bank. In 1940 the directory lists R Kinoshita at 566 East Cordova Street. The 1940 name section lists Reisuka Kinoshita there as the householder, a driver.

In 1940 the directory lists Z Kinoshita at 333 Powell Street. The 1940 name section lists Zenichi Kinoshita there as the householder, a salesman at Maikawa Ltd. The 1940 name section lists Norryoshi Kinoshita at 1498 West Pender Street, proprietor of Kino Cleaners & Dyers.

Today

The City no longer lists 554 East Cordova, 566 East Cordova, 333 Powell and 1498 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.