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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Teranishis

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Teranishi at two addresses in 1940, all on Powell Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Teranishis at 433 Powell in 1940.

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Where the Teranishis 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

    369 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • M Teranishi, a warehouseman for T Maikawa 1940

    Next door in 1940: kasuga conf at 359 and H Suzuki at 377. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    433 Powell Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • T Teranishi, a fisherman 1940
    • Mrs N Teranishi, a dressmaker 1940
    • Nao Teranishi, a dressmaker 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Wakabayashi at 431. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a dressmaker, a fisherman and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (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 M Teranishi at 369 Powell Street, a warehouseman for T Maikawa. Mrs N Teranishi, a dressmaker, is listed at 433 Powell Street in 1940. In 1940 the listing there is T Teranishi. The 1940 name section lists Tomakichi Teranishi there as the householder, a fisherman, with Nao Teranishi, a dressmaker.

Today

The City no longer lists 369 Powell and 433 Powell, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Teranishis

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Teranishi 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.