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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Prongers

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Pronger at one address, 1443 West 57th Avenue in Oakridge, in 1940.

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The Prongers 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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    1443 West 57th Avenue

    Oakridge, 1940

    • R J Pronger, a president at Invermay Hotel Co Ltd 1940
    • James Pronger, a student at UBC 1940
    • Ralph C Pronger, a student at UBC 1940
    • Shirley C Pronger, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr A Lowrie at 1455. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a president. Three of them worked for UBC.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Oakridge. 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 R J Pronger at 1443 West 57th Avenue; 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 Ralph J Pronger there as the householder, a president at Invermay Hotel Co Ltd, with James Pronger, a student at UBC, Ralph C Pronger, a student at UBC, and Shirley C Pronger, a student at UBC.

Today

For 1443 West 57th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

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, street section

The book of the Prongers

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Pronger 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.