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A family name on East Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Hastings-Sunrise

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 East Broadway. 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

    1456 East Broadway

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A C Rogers, a helper for A C Rogers 1940
    • Jessie I Rogers 1940

    Next door in 1940: L R Gehman at 1444 and Solvo Prods at 1458. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2755 East Broadway

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • H S Rogers, a branch agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M P G Keast at 2745 and C M A Nielsen at 2759. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a branch agent and a helper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 A C Rogers, in fuel, at 1456 East Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred C Rogers there, a coal wood and sawdust, with Alfred C Rogers Jr, a helper for A C Rogers, and Jessie I Rogers. In 1940 the directory lists H S Rogers at 2755 East Broadway; 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 lists Henry S Rogers there as the householder, a branch agent.

Today

1456 East Broadway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; 2755 East Broadway (1984) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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

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.