A family name on West 10th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Barkers
In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses
The directories print five people named Barker at three addresses in 1940, all on West 10th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Barkers at 4118 West 10th in 1940. The directories print the name on 57 other streets too, all listed on the Barker name's own page.
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Where the Barkers lived
- 1
345 West 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs Mary C Barker 1940
Next door in 1940: J W Young at 335 and W Marcotte at 355. The block, door by door
- 2
935 West 10th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Barker (no first name printed), an orderly 1940
Next door in 1940: A McBride at 925 and A Clark at 955. The block, door by door
- 3
4118 West 10th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- G S Barker, a branch manager at Singer Sewing Machinery 1940
- Eric G Barker, a stenographer at Swifts 1940
- Roy S Barker, an apprentice at Simplex Engine & Manufacturing 1940
Next door in 1940: C L Davis at 4114 and J C Clucas at 4124. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the five: an apprentice, a branch manager, an orderly and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Fairview, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Mrs Mary C Barker at 345 West 10th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Barker (no first name printed) at 935 West 10th Avenue, an orderly. In 1940 the directory lists G S Barker at 4118 West 10th Avenue; 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 G Syd Barker there as the householder, a branch manager at Singer Sewing Machinery, with Eric G Barker, a stenographer at Swifts, and Roy S Barker, an apprentice at Simplex Engine & Manufacturing.
Today
4118 West 10th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; 345 West 10th (1973) and 935 West 10th (1961) have newer buildings, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Barker Mrs Mary C345 West 10th, p. 31
- Barker — orderly935 West 10th, p. 31
- *Barker G S4118 West 10th, p. 201
- Barker Eric G sten Swifts4118 West 10th, p. 31
- Barker G Syd br mgr Singer Sewing Mach4118 West 10th, p. 31
- Barker Roy S appr Simplex Engine & Mfg4118 West 10th, p. 31
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Barkers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Barker 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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.