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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Walaches

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Walach at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Walaches 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

    4778 Elm Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • L S Walach, a carpenter at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: G T Watson at 4756 and C F Senner at 4792. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3768 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mayer Wallach, of Wallach & Brail 1940

    Next door in 1940: T B Cosgrave at 3756 and G Vervais at 3780. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a carpenter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Kitsilano. 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 L S Walach at 4778 Elm 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 Leon S Walach there as the householder, a carpenter at Spencer's. The 1940 name section lists Mayer Wallach at 3768 West 5th Avenue, of Wallach & Brail.

Today

4778 Elm (1999) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3768 West 5th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street
1911 or 1912 Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street. Not at the house at 4778 Elm: no archive photo of the 4700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-1033. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Walaches

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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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.