A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Twisks
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Twisk at one address, 1166 East Georgia Street in Strathcona, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Twisks at home
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1166 East Georgia Street
Strathcona, 1940
- J Twisk, a laborer at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: First United Ch Kindergarten at 1164 and J Katnich at 1170. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a laborer.
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 J Twisk at 1166 East Georgia Street; 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 Jacob Twisk there as the householder, a laborer at the CPR.
Today
1166 East Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Twisk J1166 East Georgia, p. 55
- Twisk Jacob lab CPR1166 East Georgia, p. 623
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Twisks
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Twisk 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.