A family name on Walden Street, Riley Park
The Harpers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Harper at one address, 4562 Walden Street in Riley Park, 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
- 1
4562 Walden Street
Riley Park, 1940
- J S Harper, a boltmaker at the Vancouver Engineering Works 1940
- Andrew Harper, a compositor at the Sun 1940
- Robert Harper, a compositor at the Sun 1940
Next door in 1940: C Campbell at 4554. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a compositor (2) and a boltmaker. Two of them worked for Sun.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 J S Harper at 4562 Walden Street; 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 James S Harper there as the householder, a boltmaker at the Vancouver Engineering Works, with Andrew Harper, a compositor at the Sun, and Robert Harper, a compositor at the Sun.
Today
4562 Walden still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Harper J S4562 Walden, p. 164
- Harper Andw comp Sun4562 Walden, p. 255
- Harper Jas S boltmkr Van Eng Wks4562 Walden, p. 255
- Harper Robt comp Sun4562 Walden, 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.