A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Kions
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Kion at two addresses in 1940 in Riley Park. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Kions lived
- 1
142 East 22nd Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- O K Kion 1940
Next door in 1940: H D Dolan at 126 and F Halpenny at 156. The block, door by door
- 2
41 West 16th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- E J Kion, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: A E Clarke at 25 and Mrs E Lapierre at 45. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a conductor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Riley Park (2). 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 O K Kion at 142 East 22nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Orville K Kion there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists E J Kion at 41 West 16th Avenue; 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 lists Edward J Kion there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway.
Today
142 East 22nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 41 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Kion O K142 East 22nd, p. 234
- Kion Orville K ingshmn142 East 22nd, p. 325
- *Kion E J41 West 16th, p. 222
- Kion Edw J cond BCER41 West 16th, p. 325
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Kions
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Kion 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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Another name, or a house
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.