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A family name on Dunbar Street, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano

The Rogerses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Rogers at two addresses in 1940, all on Dunbar Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 83 other streets too, all listed on the Rogers name's own page.

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Where the Rogerses 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

    4441 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • F Rogers, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Sterling Mkts at 4439 and J W Bagnall at 4443. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4518 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Harold Rogers, proprietor of Reliable Business 1940
    • Walter H Rogers, of Reliable Grocery & Confectionery 1940

    Next door in 1940: B Burns at 4508 and Realty Southlands at 4528. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2). 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 Rogers, a barber, at 4441 Dunbar Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harold Rogers at 4518 Dunbar Street, proprietor of Reliable Business, with Walter H Rogers, of Reliable Grocery & Confectionery.

Today

The City no longer lists 4441 Dunbar and 4518 Dunbar, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

The 4500 block of Dunbar Street at 29th Avenue, looking south along the tracks past Scott's Grocery
1923 The 4500 block of Dunbar Street at 29th Avenue, looking south along the tracks past Scott's Grocery. Taken on the 4500 block; it doesn't single out the house at 4518 Dunbar. City of Vancouver Archives, LP 241. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Rogerses

Every directory, as one book

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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.