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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

The Rogerses

In the city directories 1905–1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Rogers at two addresses between 1905 and 1940, all on Quebec 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

    2649 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1905

    • Ernest Rogers, a bookkeeper 1905

    Next door in 1905: George Downey at 2639. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4632 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W C Rogers, an auto body builder 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Garden at 4612 and W A Gooch at 4652. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an auto body builder.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. 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 1905 the directory lists Ernest Rogers, a bookkeeper, at 2649 Quebec Street. W C Rogers is listed at 4632 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Walter C Rogers there as the householder, an auto body builder.

Today

2649 Quebec and 4632 Quebec still have their buildings from before 1946, 2649 Quebec on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 4632 Quebec: no archive photo of the 4600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1905

Henderson's City of Vancouver Directory, street section

1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Rogerses

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Rogers 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.