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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Shinobus

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Shinobu at one address, 136 Garden Drive in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.

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The Shinobus at home

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).
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    136 Garden Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • S Shinobu, an insurance agent 1940
    • Eiichi Shinobu, a student at UBC 1940
    • Ryohei Shinobu, a student at UBC 1940
    • Mrs Sada Shinobu, proprietor of the Girls' School of Practical Arts 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Minichiello at 130 and E J Pitchko at 142. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: an insurance agent and a proprietor. Two of them worked for UBC.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 S Shinobu at 136 Garden Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Saburo Shinobu there as the householder, an insurance agent, with Eiichi Shinobu, a student at UBC, Ryohei Shinobu, a student at UBC, and Mrs Sada Shinobu, proprietor of the Girls' School of Practical Arts.

Today

136 Garden Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Shinobus

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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.