A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Radmakers
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Radmaker at one address, 419 Smithe Street in Downtown, in 1940.
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The Radmakers at home
- 1
419 Smithe Street
Downtown, 1940
- J Radmaker, a laborer 1940
- Hilda Radmaker, a waitress at Le Man Cafe 1940
Next door in 1940: D Carlson at 413. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a laborer and a waitress.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 J Radmaker at 419 Smithe Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John Radmaker there as the householder, a laborer, with Hilda Radmaker, a waitress at Le Man Cafe.
Today
The City no longer lists 419 Smithe, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Radmaker J419 Smithe, p. 152
- Radmaker Hilda waitress Le Man Cafe419 Smithe, p. 508
- Radmaker John lab419 Smithe, p. 508
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Radmakers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Radmaker 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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.