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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Minches

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Minch at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Minches at 828 East Cordova in 1940.

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Where the Minches 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

    309 Carrall Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • H Minch 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rainier Barber Shop at 307 and Lumbermen's Social Club at 315. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    828 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • H Minch, a logger 1940
    • Don Minch, a logger 1940
    • Jean Minch, a waitress 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Stewart at 822 and T Shintani at 832. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a logger (2) and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Strathcona. 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 H Minch at 309 Carrall Street. H Minch is listed at 828 East Cordova Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Herman Minch there as the householder, a logger, with Don Minch, a logger, and Jean Minch, a waitress.

Today

309 Carrall still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 828 East Cordova, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Minches

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.