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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Onoderas

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Onodera at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Onoderas lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2081 Clark Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Hisayo Onodera 1940
  2. 2

    4334 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • G Onodera, proprietor of Main Cleaners & Dyers 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Cunningham at 4332 and C C F Club at 4360. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2013 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • T Onodera, proprietor of Tom's Confectionery 1940

    Next door in 1940: T A Toombs at 2017. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a proprietor (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Kitsilano and Riley Park. 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 Hisayo Onodera at 2081 Clark Drive. G Onodera is listed at 4334 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Genjira Onodera there as the householder, proprietor of Main Cleaners & Dyers.

T Onodera is listed at 2013 West 5th Avenue in 1940; 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 Tomizo Onodera there as the householder, proprietor of Tom's Confectionery.

Today

The City no longer lists 2081 Clark Drive, 4334 Main and 2013 West 5th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 4334 Main: no archive photo of the 4300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

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 Onoderas

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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 O. Want a name removed? Tell us.