A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Laases
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Laas at one address, 887 West Broadway in Fairview, in 1940.
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The Laases at home
- 1
887 West Broadway
Fairview, 1940
- J Laas, proprietor of Quality Grocery 1940
Next door in 1940: C E Butchart at 885 and Society Cakes at 895. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists J Laas at 887 West Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James Laas there as the householder, a salesman at Quality Grocery, with Joan Laas, proprietor of Quality Grocery.
Today
The City no longer lists 887 West Broadway, 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.
- Laas J887 West Broadway, p. 17
- Laas Jas slsmn Quality Gro887 West Broadway, p. 332
- Laas Joan prop Quality Gro887 West Broadway, p. 332
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Laases
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Laas 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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.