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A family name on West 14th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Parkers

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Parker at three addresses in 1940, all on West 14th Avenue. 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 102 other streets too, all listed on the Parker name's own page.

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Where the Parkers 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

    172 West 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Harold J Parker, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: B V Dunkley at 164. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2275 West 14th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • E J Parker 1940

    Next door in 1940: H H Swinden at 2265 and Miss L E Hindle at 2285. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4423 West 14th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • C Parker, a millworker at Sitka Spruce Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: C S D Lorimer at 4419 and G W Marlatt at 4429. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an accountant and a millworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Harold J Parker at 172 West 14th Avenue, an accountant. E J Parker is listed at 2275 West 14th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Edward J Parker there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists C Parker at 4423 West 14th Avenue, a millworker at Sitka Spruce Lumber.

Today

2275 West 14th and 4423 West 14th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 172 West 14th, 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 Parkers

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.