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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Sachses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Sachs at two addresses in 1940 in Kitsilano. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Sachses 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

    3109 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • John R Sachs 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Banton at 3103 and S Stonier at 3119. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2546 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J F Sachs, a superintendent at the Canada Rice Mills 1940
    • Edna J Sachs, a hairdresser 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Barton at 2536 and Mrs C R Snow at 2556. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a hairdresser and a superintendent.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John R Sachs at 3109 West 3rd Avenue. J F Sachs is listed at 2546 West 7th Avenue in 1940; 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 Jacob F Sachs there as the householder, a superintendent at the Canada Rice Mills, with Edna J Sachs, a hairdresser.

Today

3109 West 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record; 2546 West 7th (1990) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Sachses

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.