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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Lesks

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Lesk at one address, 1536 West 14th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940.

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The Lesks at home

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).
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    1536 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs E Lesk, widow of P 1940
    • Vera Lesk 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J Foster at 1512 and A P Joel at 1546. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

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 Mrs E Lesk at 1536 West 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Esther Lesk there as the householder, widow of P, with Vera Lesk.

Today

1536 West 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The book of the Lesks

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Lesk 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.