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A family name on Denman Street, West End

The Youngs

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Young at two addresses in 1940, all on Denman Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Young name's own page.

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Where the Youngs 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

    742 Denman Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Rosetta Young, a housekeeper for J Foster 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Uchibori at 740 and L J O'Grady at 748. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1182 Denman Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Freda Young, of Bay View Dairy 1940

    Next door in 1940: H L Woodard at 1180 and Bay Barber English at 1184. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Rosetta Young at 742 Denman Street, a housekeeper for J Foster. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Freda Young at 1182 Denman Street, of Bay View Dairy.

Today

The City no longer lists 742 Denman and 1182 Denman, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Children parading on Denman Street past the Bay Theatre
1950 Children parading on Denman Street past the Bay Theatre. Not at the house at 742 Denman: no archive photo of the 700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 392-1788. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Youngs

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.