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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Kostmans

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Kostman 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 Kostmans 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

    1154 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • George Kostman, a department manager at Famous 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Foerster at 1106. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3007 Oak Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • H Kostman, a department manager at Famous 1940

    Next door in 1940: C R Dowell at 3017. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2735 West 30th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • H L Kostman, a manager at Sally Shops (Vancouver) Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: S J Wright at 2725 and A A McLennan at 2745. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1040 West Georgia Street

    West End, 1940

    • I L Kostman, a president at Famous 1940

    Next door in 1940: McDermott Motors Ltd at 1018 and Begg Motor Co Ltd (used cars) at 1056. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a department manager (2), a manager and a president. Three of them worked for Famous.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2), Arbutus Ridge and Fairview. 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 George Kostman at 1154 Gilford Street, a department manager at Famous. H Kostman is listed at 3007 Oak Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry Kostman there as the householder, a department manager at Famous.

H L Kostman is listed at 2735 West 30th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry L Kostman there as the householder, a manager at Sally Shops (Vancouver) Ltd. I L Kostman is listed at 1040 West Georgia Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Isidor L Kostman there as the householder, a president at Famous.

Today

1154 Gilford and 2735 West 30th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1154 Gilford on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 1040 West Georgia (1985) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3007 Oak, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments
21 May 1929 Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments. Not at the house at 3007 Oak: no archive photo of the 3000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 453-1. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Kostmans

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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.