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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Koviches

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Kovich at three 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 Koviches 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

    884 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Rose M Kovich, a waitress at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Bute Lodge at 836 and Mrs A Dann at 894. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3370 East Georgia Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Joseph Kovich, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Davidovitch at 3360. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1870 Frances Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • M Kovich, a laborer 1940
    • Nick Kovich, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Johnson at 1864 and W L Allan at 1872. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a carpenter, a laborer, a longshoreman and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Hastings-Sunrise and West End. 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 Rose M Kovich at 884 Bute Street, a waitress at the CPR. The 1940 name section lists Joseph Kovich at 3370 East Georgia Street, a longshoreman. In 1940 the directory lists M Kovich at 1870 Frances Street. The 1940 name section lists Mike Kovich there as the householder, a laborer, with Nick Kovich, a carpenter.

Today

884 Bute still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 3370 East Georgia and 1870 Frances, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Koviches

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Kovich 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.