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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Yims

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Yim 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 Yims 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

    41 East Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Dan Yim, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Kwong Chin Ho Co at 39 and Duck Chow at 43. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2254 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Soo Yim, proprietor of Long Market 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Adam at 2252. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown 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 Dan Yim, a barber, at 41 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Soo Yim at 2254 West 4th Avenue, proprietor of Long Market.

Today

The City no longer lists 41 East Pender and 2254 West 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 41 East Pender: no archive photo of the first block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 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 Yims

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.