A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Roocrofts
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Roocroft at one address, 3404 West 15th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Roocrofts at home
- 1
3404 West 15th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- T H Roocroft, a helper at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works 1940
Next door in 1940: A C Chipman at 3420. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a helper.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 T H Roocroft at 3404 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists T Harold Roocroft there as the householder, a helper at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works.
Today
The City no longer lists 3404 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Roocroft T H3404 West 15th, p. 221
- Roocroft T Harold hlpr Can Sumner Iron Wks3404 West 15th, p. 530
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Roocrofts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Roocroft 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.