A family name on Keefer Street, Strathcona and Downtown
The Youngs
In the city directories 1925–1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Young at two addresses between 1925 and 1940, all on Keefer 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
- 1
797 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1925 and 1935
- V Young 1925
- R Young 1935
Next door in 1935: East End Realty at 795 and L Bevilacqua at 799. The block, door by door
- 2
422 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Low Young 1940
Next door in 1940: A G R Yen at 416 and Hing Mee Kee Loo Soc at 428. The block, door by door
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (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 1925 the directory lists V Young at 797 Keefer Street. By 1935 it is R Young. In 1940 the directory lists Low Young at 422 Keefer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Low Young there as the householder.
Today
The City no longer lists 797 Keefer and 422 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.
- Young V797 Keefer, p. 71
Wrigley-Henderson Amalgamated British Columbia Directory, street section
- Young R797 Keefer, p. 88
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
- Young Low422 Keefer, p. 93
- Young Low422 Keefer, p. 680
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Youngs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Young 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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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.