A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Yens
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Yen at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Yens lived
- 1
67 East Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Lock Chop Suey Yen, who ran a restaurant 1940
Next door in 1940: Kwan Lung Sai Tong Assn at 63 and Sue Yuen Tong Assn at 69. The block, door by door
- 2
239 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Ming Lum Yen, a garage 1940
Next door in 1940: American Prod at 237 and Pac Prod at 241. The block, door by door
- 3
416 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1940
- A G R Yen 1940
Next door in 1940: Low Young at 422. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a restaurant.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lock Chop Suey Yen at 67 East Pender Street, who ran a restaurant. Ming Lum Yen, a garage, is listed at 239 Keefer Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists A G R Yen at 416 Keefer Street. The 1940 name section lists A G R Yen there as the householder.
Today
239 Keefer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1935 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 67 East Pender and 416 Keefer, 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.
- Yen Lock Chop Suey restr67 East Pender, p. 678
- Yen Ming Lum gar239 Keefer, p. 93
- Yen A G R416 Keefer, p. 93
- Yen A G R416 Keefer, p. 678
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Yens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Yen 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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.