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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Yamaokas

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Yamaoka at two addresses in 1940 in Grandview-Woodland. 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 Yamaokas 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

    2011 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • N Yamaoka 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C M Salter at 2019. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2312 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • S Yamaoka, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Addison at 2306 and R C L Salmon at 2336. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 N Yamaoka at 2011 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Nobuchi Yamaoka there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists S Yamaoka at 2312 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Seitaro Yamaoka there as the householder, a president at Powell Lumber, with Setsu Yamaoka, a student.

Today

2011 East 4th and 2312 East 5th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Yamaokas

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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.