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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Zorns

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Zorn at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Zorns 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

    221 East 19th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Ewald R Zorn 1940

    Next door in 1940: A R Bruce at 219 and J James at 223. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4272 Perry Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J J Zorn, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: W W McEwan at 4240 and J K McMitchell at 4282. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    177 West Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Elizabeth Zorn, a maid at the Stirling Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Goodrich B F Rubber at 175. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a longshoreman and a maid.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park. 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 Ewald R Zorn at 221 East 19th Avenue. J J Zorn is listed at 4272 Perry Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists John J Zorn there as the householder, a longshoreman. The 1940 name section lists Elizabeth Zorn at 177 West Cordova Street, a maid at the Stirling Hotel.

Today

4272 Perry (1990) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 221 East 19th and 177 West Cordova, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Zorns

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 Z. Want a name removed? Tell us.