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A family name on East King Edward Avenue, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Fosters

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Foster at two addresses in 1940, all on East King Edward Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Fosters at 460 East King Edward in 1940. 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

    166 East King Edward Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs Jennie I Foster 1940

    Next door in 1940: K Kristensen at 160 and W T Shirley at 172. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    460 East King Edward Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • J H Foster, a driver at Woodward's 1940
    • James E Foster, a page boy at the Terminal City Club 1940
    • M Violet Foster, a hairdresser at Jessica's Beauty Box 1940
    • Wesley H Foster, a driver at Guarantee Cleaners & Dyers 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Robinson at 454 and R G Little at 466. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a driver (2), a hairdresser and a page boy.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (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 Mrs Jennie I Foster at 166 East King Edward Avenue. J H Foster is listed at 460 East King Edward Avenue 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 James H Foster there as the householder, a driver at Woodward's, with James E Foster, a page boy at the Terminal City Club, M Violet Foster, a hairdresser at Jessica's Beauty Box, and Wesley H Foster, a driver at Guarantee Cleaners & Dyers.

Today

166 East King Edward still has its building from before 1946, dated 1907 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 460 East King Edward (1996) has a newer building, 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.
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.