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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Rulenses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Rulens at four addresses in 1940 in four of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Rulenses at 2730 East 24th in 1940.

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Where the Rulenses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2730 East 24th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • C A Rulens, a warehouseman at Slade & Stewart 1940
    • Ray Rulens, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940
    • Walter Rulens, an operator at Leckie 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Allen at 2790. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    105 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs S Rulens, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: premier clnrs & dyrs at 101 and Mayfair Candy Co at 107. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    431 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • C Rulens, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Bandura at 429 and Far Kay Noodle Fcty at 433. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4620 West 2nd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A G Rulens 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr C H C Bell at 4616 and J N Finlayson at 4634. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a confectioner, a longshoreman, a millworker, an operator and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant, Renfrew-Collingwood, Strathcona and West Point Grey. 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 C A Rulens at 2730 East 24th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Cesar A Rulens there as the householder, a warehouseman at Slade & Stewart, with Ray Rulens, a millworker at BC Plywoods, and Walter Rulens, an operator at Leckie. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs S Rulens, a confectioner, at 105 East Broadway. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Stephanie Rulens there, a confectioner.

The 1940 name section lists C Rulens at 431 East Georgia Street, a longshoreman. A G Rulens is listed at 4620 West 2nd Avenue in 1940.

Today

2730 East 24th and 4620 West 2nd still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 431 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 105 East Broadway, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Rulenses

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.