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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Pennycooks

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Pennycook 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. The most under one roof: three Pennycooks at 2217 Parker in 1940.

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Where the Pennycooks 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

    468 East 5th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • John Pennycook, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Sweet at 450 and T Masuda at 498. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2598 Oxford Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • D Pennycook, a machinist at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M McKay at 2596. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2217 Parker Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • H Pennycook, a carpenter 1940
    • May A Pennycook, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
    • William Pennycook, a salesman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: M MacLeod at 2211 and Mrs W Twyford at 2225. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a carpenter, a laborer, a machinist, a salesman and a saleswoman. Two of them worked for Woodward's.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Hastings-Sunrise and Mount Pleasant. 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 John Pennycook at 468 East 5th Avenue, a laborer. D Pennycook is listed at 2598 Oxford Street 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 David Pennycook there as the householder, a machinist at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works.

H Pennycook is listed at 2217 Parker Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Harry Pennycook there as the householder, a carpenter, with May A Pennycook, a saleswoman at Woodward's, and William Pennycook, a salesman at Woodward's.

Today

2598 Oxford and 2217 Parker still have their buildings from before 1946; 468 East 5th (2010) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret
1932 Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret. Not at the house at 2217 Parker: no archive photo of the 2200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4161. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Pennycooks

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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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.