A family name on West 63rd Avenue, Marpole and Kerrisdale
The Palmers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Palmer at one address, 849 West 63rd Avenue in Marpole, in 1940. The directories print the name on 76 other streets too, all listed on the Palmer name's own page.
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The Palmers at home
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849 West 63rd Avenue
Marpole, 1940
- R W Palmer, a machinist operator at BC Door 1940
- Frances J Palmer, widow of N 1940
- Russell J Palmer, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940
Next door in 1940: G W Jenks at 837 and Mrs A Porpa at 859. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laborer and a machinist operator. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Marpole. 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 W Palmer at 849 West 63rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Roy W Palmer there as the householder, a machinist operator at BC Door, with Frances J Palmer, widow of N, and Russell J Palmer, a laborer at Canadian White Pine.
Today
849 West 63rd (1988) 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.
- Palmer R W849 West 63rd, p. 271
- Palmer Frances J wid N849 West 63rd, p. 478
- Palmer Roy W mach opr BC Door849 West 63rd, p. 478
- Palmer Russell J lab Can White Pine849 West 63rd, p. 478
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Palmers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Palmer 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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.