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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

The Fosters

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at two addresses

The directories print seven people named Foster at two addresses in 1940, all on Victoria Drive. 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: five Fosters at 3995 Victoria Drive 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

    2915 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C Sid Foster, a swamper 1940
    • Charles B Foster, a butcher at the BC Livestock Exchange 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Brebner at 2943. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3995 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • G Foster, a laborer at BC Sugar 1940
    • Herbert J Foster, a laborer at BC Sugar 1940
    • Jean H Foster 1940
    • Robert E Foster, a painter 1940
    • Victor Foster, a sander at Hardwood Chair 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Thompson at 3945. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the seven: a laborer (2), a butcher, a painter, a sander and a swamper. Two of them worked for BC Sugar.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 C Sid Foster at 2915 Victoria Drive, a swamper, with Charles B Foster, a butcher at the BC Livestock Exchange. G Foster is listed at 3995 Victoria Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section lists George Foster there as the householder, a laborer at BC Sugar, with Herbert J Foster, a laborer at BC Sugar, Jean H Foster, Robert E Foster, a painter, and Victor Foster, a sander at Hardwood Chair.

Today

2915 Victoria Drive and 3995 Victoria Drive still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 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.