A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Tommes
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Tomme at one address, 357 East 46th Avenue in Sunset, in 1940.
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The Tommes at home
- 1
357 East 46th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- O Tomme, a sausage maker 1940
Next door in 1940: B H English at 335. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a sausage maker.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 O Tomme at 357 East 46th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Otto Tomme there as the householder, a sausage maker.
Today
The City no longer lists 357 East 46th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Tomme O357 East 46th, p. 262
- Tomme Otto sausage mkr357 East 46th, p. 615
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Tommes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Tomme 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.