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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Lukases

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Lukas at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Lukases 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

    344 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Henry Lukas, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: Goodwill Activities Assn at 346. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2120 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • M Lukas, a box maker at American Can 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Olsen at 2102 and E H Hunnisett at 2128. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    215 Princess Avenue

    Strathcona, 1940

    • John Lukas 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Nakamuro at 233. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a box maker and a logger.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Henry Lukas at 344 East Hastings Street, a logger. M Lukas is listed at 2120 East Pender Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Michael Lukas there as the householder, a box maker at American Can. The 1940 name section lists John Lukas at 215 Princess Avenue.

Today

344 East Hastings, 2120 East Pender and 215 Princess still have their buildings from before 1946.

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 2120 East Pender: no archive photo of the 2100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Lukases

Every directory, as one book

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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.