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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Palings

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Paling at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Palings 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

    2882 East 44th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • F Paling, retired 1940
    • Joyce K Paling, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: C McPherson at 2880 and A Shindel at 2890. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    222 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • A Paling 1940

    Next door in 1940: Greenhouses Parkview at 218 and Pong Gay Chan at 232. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Killarney and Strathcona. 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 F Paling at 2882 East 44th 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 Frederick Paling there as the householder, retired, with Joyce K Paling, a stenographer. The 1940 name section lists A Paling at 222 Keefer Street.

Today

222 Keefer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1918 by the City's record; 2882 East 44th (2005) has a newer building, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Palings

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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.