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A family name on Larch Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and Arbutus Ridge

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 Larch 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1557 Larch Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Gladys Young, a stenographer at the Retail Merchants Association 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs S C Lynas at 1555 and R R Chalcraft at 1573. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5637 Larch Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Lemuel P Young, a building contractor 1940

    Next door in 1940: R L Park at 5611 and M A W Mitchell at 5661. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a building contractor and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gladys Young at 1557 Larch Street, a stenographer at the Retail Merchants Association. The 1940 name section lists Lemuel P Young at 5637 Larch Street, a building contractor.

Today

1557 Larch and 5637 Larch still have their buildings from before 1946.

Sunday school teachers with Rev. A.H. Sovereign on the steps of St. Mark's Church
1912 Sunday school teachers with Rev. A.H. Sovereign on the steps of St. Mark's Church. Not at the house at 1557 Larch: no archive photo of the 1500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Ch P122. 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

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.