Dai Yousen

Dai Yousen

In the BC Yukon Directory 1941 under Powell Street 473 there are three entries. Two of them are different than this one, but the third is noted as vacant in the English directory.

Metadata

Surname (Japanese)八千
Forename (Japanese)
Regularized Name八千 代
Surname (Romanized Japanese)Yousen
Forename (Romanized Japanese)Dai
Regularized NameDai Yousen
AddrLine 473 Powell Street
SegHI 2242L
SettlementVancouver

Data

Powell Street Neighbourhood Streets (1)

Terminology

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