A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Spataris
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Spatari at one address, 447 East Georgia Street in Strathcona, in 1940.
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The Spataris at home
- 1
447 East Georgia Street
Strathcona, 1940
- F Spatari, a tailor 1940
- Tosca Spatari, an operator at Jones Tent & Awning 1940
- Victor Spatari, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: Wing Quen at 441 and Ying Gar at 457. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a laborer, an operator and a tailor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Strathcona. 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 Spatari at 447 East Georgia Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Spatari there as the householder, a tailor, with Tosca Spatari, an operator at Jones Tent & Awning, and Victor Spatari, a laborer.
Today
The City no longer lists 447 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Spatari F447 East Georgia, p. 55
- Spatari Frank tailor447 East Georgia, p. 578
- Spatari Tosca opr Jones Tent & Awning447 East Georgia, p. 578
- Spatari Victor lab447 East Georgia, p. 578
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Spataris
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Spatari 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.