A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Takemotos
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Takemoto at one address, 266 Powell Street in Strathcona, in 1940.
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The Takemotos at home
- 1
266 Powell Street
Strathcona, 1940
- T Takemoto 1940
- P Takemoto, a president at the BC Japanese Club 1940
- Mrs Yaeno Takemoto, proprietor of Hinomaru Cafe 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs K Maruman at 264 and S Sugiyama at 268. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a president and a proprietor.
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 T Takemoto at 266 Powell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Turokitchi Takemoto there as the householder, with P Takemoto, a president at the BC Japanese Club, and Mrs Yaeno Takemoto, proprietor of Hinomaru Cafe.
Today
The City no longer lists 266 Powell, 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.
- Takemoto T266 Powell, p. 134
- Takemoto P pres BC Japanese Club266 Powell, p. 600
- Takemoto Turokitchi266 Powell, p. 600
- Takemoto Mrs Yaeno prop Hinomaru Cafe266 Powell, p. 600
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Takemotos
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Takemoto 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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.