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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Naruses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at one address

The directories print six people named Naruse at one address, 568 Powell Street in Strathcona, in 1940.

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The Naruses at home

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).
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    568 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • G Naruse, rooms to let 1940
    • Haruko Naruse, a dressmaker 1940
    • Kenji Naruse 1940
    • Kimi Naruse 1940
    • Tadayoshi Naruse 1940
    • Tokiko Naruse, a dressmaker 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Nishimura at 566 and Mrs A Igashira at 578. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: a dressmaker (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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

In 1940 the directory lists G Naruse, rooms to let, at 568 Powell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Haruko Naruse there, a dressmaker, with Kenji Naruse, Kimi Naruse, Tadayoshi Naruse, and Tokiko Naruse, a dressmaker.

Today

568 Powell still has its building from before 1946, dated 1906 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Naruses

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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.