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A family name on Charles Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Fosters

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Foster at two addresses in 1940, all on Charles Street. 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 104 other streets too, all listed on the Foster name's own page.

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Where the Fosters 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

    1933 Charles Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E R Foster, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Kirby at 1927 and T Ohora at 1943. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1975 Charles Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A M Foster, a postman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Toffaletto at 1973 and A Nairn at 1979. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a longshoreman and a postman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 E R Foster at 1933 Charles Street, a longshoreman. A M Foster is listed at 1975 Charles 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 Archibald M Foster there as the householder, a postman.

Today

1933 Charles and 1975 Charles still have their buildings from before 1946.

Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street
About 1910 Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street. Not at the house at 1975 Charles: no archive photo of the 1900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 354-335. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Fosters

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Foster 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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.