A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Trapps
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Trapp at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Trapps lived
- 1
439 McLean Drive
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Louis J Trapp, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: J Premack at 435 and W R Wedig at 441. The block, door by door
- 2
2751 Trinity Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- G H Trapp, an engineer at Canada Packers 1940
Next door in 1940: H Willingham at 2747 and G L Blackburn at 2753. The block, door by door
- 3
925 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- Miss E Trapp, a physician 1940
Next door in 1940: Lunch Sandwich at 915 and Macdonald's Prescriptions at 929. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an engineer and a longshoreman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Louis J Trapp at 439 McLean Drive, a longshoreman. G H Trapp is listed at 2751 Trinity 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 George H Trapp there as the householder, an engineer at Canada Packers. Miss E Trapp, a physician, is listed at 925 West Georgia Street in 1940.
Today
439 McLean Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1908 by the City's record; 2751 Trinity (1970) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 925 West 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.
- Trapp Louis J lngshmn439 McLean Drive, p. 618
- *Trapp G H2751 Trinity, p. 157
- Trapp Geo H eng Canada Pkrs2751 Trinity, p. 618
- Trapp Miss E phys925 West Georgia, p. 58
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Trapps
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Trapp 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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Another name, or a house
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.