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A family name on West 20th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Bakers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Baker at two addresses in 1940, all on West 20th Avenue. 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 103 other streets too, all listed on the Baker name's own page.

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Where the Bakers 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

    650 West 20th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Clark Baker, a laborer at Burke Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Potts at 644 and W Ewen at 670. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3737 West 20th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Ethel Baker, a clerk 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Brock at 3727 and W Jenkinson at 3749. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and South Cambie. 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 Clark Baker at 650 West 20th Avenue, a laborer at Burke Lumber. The 1940 name section lists Ethel Baker at 3737 West 20th Avenue, a clerk.

Today

650 West 20th and 3737 West 20th still have their buildings from before 1946.

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 Bakers

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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.