A family name on East 55th Avenue, Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview
The Harpers
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Harper at one address, 1072 East 55th Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 43 other streets too, all listed on the Harper name's own page.
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The Harpers at home
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1072 East 55th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- R A Harper, a plumber 1940
- George M Harper, a laborer 1940
- Harvey J Harper, a laborer 1940
- Mary Harper, widow of G 1940
- Walter Harper, a salesman 1940
Next door in 1940: W B Smith at 1066 and J J Herman at 1078. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a laborer (2), a plumber and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 R A Harper at 1072 East 55th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Reginald A Harper there as the householder, a plumber, with George M Harper, a laborer, Harvey J Harper, a laborer, Mary Harper, widow of G, and Walter Harper, a salesman.
Today
1072 East 55th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 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.
- *Harper R A1072 East 55th, p. 268
- Harper Geo M lab1072 East 55th, p. 255
- Harper Harvey J lab1072 East 55th, p. 255
- Harper Mary wid G1072 East 55th, p. 255
- Harper Regd A plmbr 55 Kway1072 East 55th, p. 255
- Harper Walter slsmn1072 East 55th, p. 255
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Harpers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Harper 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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Another name, or a house
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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.