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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Parkes

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

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

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Where the Parkes 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

    1161 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • R Doug Parke, an attendant at Union Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: St Helen's Cigar Stand at 1159 and French Way Clnrs at 1167. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1116 Pendrell Street

    West End, 1940

    • L D Parke, a linotype at the BC Journal of Commerce 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss F Ward-Wreford at 1114 and V Benn at 1118. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    536 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Thomas Parke, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Omond at 526. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an attendant and a linotype.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Fairview and West End. 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 R Doug Parke at 1161 Granville Street, an attendant at Union Oil. L D Parke is listed at 1116 Pendrell Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Lindsay D Parke there as the householder, a linotype at the BC Journal of Commerce. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Parke at 536 West 13th Avenue, retired.

Today

1161 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 1116 Pendrell (1976) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 536 West 13th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Parkes

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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.