A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The La Branches
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named La Branche at one address, 915 Robson Street in Downtown, in 1940.
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The La Branches at home
- 1
915 Robson Street
Downtown, 1940
- L La Branche, a hand doorman at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
- Joseph L La Branche, a hand bellman at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Morgan & Paris at 911 and Arts Richmond at 919. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a hand bellman and a hand doorman. Two of them worked for Vancouver Hotel.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 L La Branche at 915 Robson Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lucien La Branche there as the householder, a hand doorman at the Vancouver Hotel, with Joseph L La Branche, a hand bellman at the Vancouver Hotel.
Today
The City no longer lists 915 Robson, 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.
- La Branche L915 Robson, p. 143
- La Branche Jos L hd bellmn Van Hotel915 Robson, p. 332
- La Branche Lucien hd doormn Van Hotel915 Robson, p. 332
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the La Branches
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the La Branche 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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.