A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Poerches
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Poerch at one address, 1732 McSpadden Avenue in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.
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The Poerches at home
Woodland
- 1
1732 McSpadden Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- F W Poerch, a cupolaman at the Mainland Foundry 1940
Next door in 1940: H W Titmus at 1726 and G E Hale at 1738. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a cupolaman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 F W Poerch at 1732 McSpadden Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank W Poerch there as the householder, a cupolaman at the Mainland Foundry.
Today
1732 McSpadden still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Poerch F W1732 McSpadden, p. 106
- Poerch Frank W cupolamn Mainland Fndy1732 McSpadden, p. 497
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Poerches
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Poerch 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.