A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Piovesans
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Piovesan at one address, 446 Union Street in Strathcona, in 1940.
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The Piovesans at home
- 1
446 Union Street
Strathcona, 1940
- A Piovesan, a foreman at Canadian Pacific Steamships 1940
- Gilda Piovesan, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M Turone at 444 and E Del Secco at 448. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a foreman and a saleswoman.
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 A Piovesan at 446 Union Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Adam Piovesan there as the householder, a foreman at Canadian Pacific Steamships, with Gilda Piovesan, a saleswoman at Woodward's.
Today
446 Union still has its building from before 1946, dated 1930 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
The book of the Piovesans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Piovesan name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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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.