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A family name on Davie Street, West End and Downtown

The Wongs

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Wong at three addresses in 1940, all on Davie Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 32 other streets too, all listed on the Wong name's own page.

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Where the Wongs 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

    805 Davie Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Foo Wong, who ran a laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: West End Gro at 803 and Vick's Radio at 807. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1091 Davie Street

    West End, 1940

    • Bing Wong, a manager at Sun York Products 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss L Hill at 1067 and Afton (The) at 1097. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1096 Davie Street

    West End, 1940

    • Sung Wong, a laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: Co-op Meat Mkt at 1094 and R C Birch at 1098. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laundry and a manager.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2) and Downtown. 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 Foo Wong, a laundry, at 805 Davie Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Foo Wong there, who ran a laundry. The 1940 name section lists Bing Wong at 1091 Davie Street, a manager at Sun York Products. Sung Wong, a laundry, is listed at 1096 Davie Street in 1940.

Today

1091 Davie still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 805 Davie and 1096 Davie, so those buildings are 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Wongs

Every directory, as one book

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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.