A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Lipovskys
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Lipovsky at one address, 1816 West 13th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Lipovskys at home
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1816 West 13th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- I Lipovsky, a department manager at Woodward's 1940
- Dorothy Lipovsky, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
- Shirley Lipovsky 1940
Next door in 1940: J M Warwick at 1806 and M H Watson at 1826. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a department manager and a saleswoman. Two of them worked for Woodward's.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 I Lipovsky at 1816 West 13th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Isaac Lipovsky there as the householder, a department manager at Woodward's, with Dorothy Lipovsky, a saleswoman at Woodward's, and Shirley Lipovsky.
Today
1816 West 13th (2002) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Lipovsky I1816 West 13th, p. 212
- Lipovsky Dorothy slswm Woodwards1816 West 13th, p. 350
- Lipovsky Isaac dept mgr Woodwards1816 West 13th, p. 350
- Lipovsky Shirley1816 West 13th, p. 350
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Lipovskys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Lipovsky 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.