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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Matsudas

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Matsuda at two addresses in 1940 in Strathcona. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Matsudas 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

    1149 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • N Matsuda 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Zoric at 1137 and J Garneau at 1151. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    369 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Kumejiro Matsuda, a salesman for T Maikawa 1940

    Next door in 1940: kasuga conf at 359 and H Suzuki at 377. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 N Matsuda at 1149 Keefer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Naoichi Matsuda there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Kumejiro Matsuda at 369 Powell Street, a salesman for T Maikawa.

Today

1149 Keefer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 369 Powell, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street
1914 The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street. Not at the house at 1149 Keefer: no archive photo of the 1100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2021-034.288, photo by Yucho Chow Studio. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Matsudas

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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.