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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Raders

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Rader at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Reader. 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 Raders 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

    4614 Bellevue Drive

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • I Rader 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Q Calvert at 4606 and A E Sprange at 4622. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1066 East 50th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • J Reader, a foreman at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Metz at 1060 and Miss C E MacIntosh at 1072. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1267 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Albert H Reader 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L Lamont at 1263 and P Singer at 1277. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    925 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A F Rader, a dentist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lunch Sandwich at 915 and Macdonald's Prescriptions at 929. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a foreman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Sunset and West Point Grey. 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 I Rader at 4614 Bellevue Drive. J Reader is listed at 1066 East 50th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Jack Reader there as the householder, a warehouseman, with Jonathan Reader, a foreman at the City of Vancouver. The 1940 name section lists Albert H Reader at 1267 Hornby Street.

In 1940 the directory lists A F Rader, a dentist, at 925 West Georgia Street.

Today

4614 Bellevue Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1066 East 50th, 1267 Hornby and 925 West Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.