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A family name on East Pender Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Harpers

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Harper at two addresses in 1940, all on East Pender Street. 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: three Harpers at 3170 East Pender 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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Where the Harpers 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

    2136 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs Winnifred P Harper 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Langston at 2134 and 5 listings at 2144. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3170 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • S S T Harper, a salesman 1940
    • Thomas Harper, a gardener at the Vancouver Parks Board 1940
    • Alec O Harper, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Logan at 3162 and W J Crawford at 3178. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a salesman (2) and a gardener.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Winnifred P Harper at 2136 East Pender Street. S S T Harper is listed at 3170 East Pender 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 Stan S T Harper there as the householder, a salesman, with Thomas Harper, a gardener at the Vancouver Parks Board, and Alec O Harper, a salesman.

Today

3170 East Pender (2013) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2136 East Pender, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 3170 East Pender: no archive photo of the 3100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Harpers

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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.