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A family name on Haro Street, West End

The Harpers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Harper at three addresses in 1940, all on Haro Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. 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

    1055 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs May Harper 1940

    Next door in 1940: 4 listings at 1053 and P Baskin at 1063. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1416 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • J T Harper, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • Elizabeth Harper, widow of J T 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D C Noel at 1414 and A Black at 1430. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1531 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • Irene Harper, a telephone operator 1940
    • Mabel Harper, a waitress at Cameo Dairy Lunch 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I M McKinnon at 1515 and J H Newitt at 1537. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a manufacturers agent, a telephone operator and a waitress. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (3). 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 May Harper at 1055 Haro Street. J T Harper is listed at 1416 Haro Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John T Harper there as the householder, a manufacturers agent, with Elizabeth Harper, widow of J T. The 1940 name section lists Irene Harper at 1531 Haro Street, a telephone operator, with Mabel Harper, a waitress at Cameo Dairy Lunch.

Today

The City no longer lists 1055 Haro and 1531 Haro, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 1416 Haro, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

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 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.