A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Schobers
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Schober at one address, 442 West 6th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Schobers at home
Pleasant
- 1
442 West 6th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- F Schober, a helper at Alberta Lumber 1940
- Adolph Schober, a tailor at E Y Hammer 1940
Next door in 1940: W L Cumming at 434 and G Lerch at 446. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a helper and a tailor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 F Schober at 442 West 6th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Schober there as the householder, a helper at Alberta Lumber, with Adolph Schober, a tailor at E Y Hammer.
Today
The City no longer lists 442 West 6th, 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.
- Schober F442 West 6th, p. 187
- Schober Adolph tailor E Y Hammer442 West 6th, p. 546
- Schober Frank hlpr Alberta Lbr442 West 6th, p. 546
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Schobers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Schober 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.