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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Takenakas

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Takenaka at two addresses in 1940 in Grandview-Woodland. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Takenakas lived

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).
  1. 1

    2225 Dundas Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Taki Takenaka, widow of S 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Suzanne at 2215 and 6 listings at 2235. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2327 Oxford Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • T Takenaka, a bookkeeper at J Kasho & Co 1940
    • Saski Takenaka, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Y Iwasaki at 2321 and L Pitcher at 2357. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a bookkeeper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Taki Takenaka at 2225 Dundas Street, widow of S. T Takenaka is listed at 2327 Oxford Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists Tukujiro Takenaka there as the householder, a bookkeeper at J Kasho & Co, with Saski Takenaka, retired.

Today

The City no longer lists 2225 Dundas and 2327 Oxford, so those buildings are 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Takenakas

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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.