A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Sakanashis
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Sakanashi at one address, 1949 West 3rd Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Sakanashis at home
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1949 West 3rd Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- Mrs M Sakanashi 1940
- Wataro Sakanashi, a mechanic at the S & T Auto Service 1940
Next door in 1940: Y Nishimura at 1951. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a mechanic.
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 Mrs M Sakanashi at 1949 West 3rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Mitsu Sakanashi there as the householder, with Wataro Sakanashi, a mechanic at the S & T Auto Service.
Today
The City no longer lists 1949 West 3rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Sakanashi Mrs M1949 West 3rd, p. 178
- Sakanashi Mrs Mitsu1949 West 3rd, p. 541
- Sakanashi Wataro mech S & T Auto Serv1949 West 3rd, p. 541
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Sakanashis
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Sakanashi 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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.