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A family name on Angus Drive, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy and Marpole

The Carters

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Carter at three addresses in 1940, all on Angus Drive, with the close spelling Cartier. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 70 other streets too, all listed on the Carter name's own page.

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Where the Carters 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

    4387 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • A Carter, a department manager at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M B Uglow at 4361. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6957 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • J V Carter, an adjuster at Shallcross-Nasmyth 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Barr at 6947. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    7138 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • H S Carter, a salesman 1940
    • Clif A Carter, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Ingram at 7112 and W A Dobson at 7162. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an adjuster, a department manager and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale (2) and Shaughnessy. 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

In 1940 the directory lists A Carter at 4387 Angus Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Austin Carter there as the householder, a department manager at the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1940 the directory lists J V Carter at 6957 Angus Drive. The 1940 name section lists James V Carter there as the householder, an adjuster at Shallcross-Nasmyth.

In 1940 the directory lists H S Carter at 7138 Angus Drive; 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 Herbert S Carter there as the householder, a salesman, with Clif A Carter, a student.

Today

4387 Angus Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; 6957 Angus Drive (2006) and 7138 Angus Drive (1995) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 7138 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 7100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Carters

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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.