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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Nakayamas

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Nakayama at five 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 Nakayamas 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

    786 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • G Nakayama, a broker and interpreter 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs B Ireland at 780 and Cordova Gro at 790. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    828 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • H Nakayama, a fisherman 1940
    • Mrs Rune Nakayama, a barber 1940

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

  3. 3

    882 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Mrs R Nakayama, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lindsay Boat Wks at 878 and Mrs N Miyagawa at 884. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    235 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • G Nakayama, a broker 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Nose at 231 and Tokiwa Barber Shop at 237. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1450 West 64th Avenue

    Marpole, 1940

    • Rev G G Nakayama, a pastor at the Japanese Church of the Ascension 1940

    Next door in 1940: D L Farmer at 1422 and G O Gowler at 1454. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a barber, a broker and interpreter, a fisherman and a pastor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (4) and Marpole. 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 G Nakayama at 786 East Cordova Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Giichi Nakayama there as the householder, a broker and interpreter. In 1940 the directory lists H Nakayama at 828 East Cordova Street. The 1940 name section lists Haichiro Nakayama there as the householder, a fisherman, with Mrs Rune Nakayama, a barber.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs R Nakayama, a barber, at 882 East Hastings Street. G Nakayama, a broker, is listed at 235 Powell Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists Rev G G Nakayama at 1450 West 64th 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 lists Rev Gordon G Nakayama there as the householder, a pastor at the Japanese Church of the Ascension.

Today

882 East Hastings and 1450 West 64th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1450 West 64th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 786 East Cordova, 828 East Cordova and 235 Powell, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.