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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Peterkins

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Peterkin 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 Peterkins 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

    985 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • Ken Peterkin, a salesman at Con Jones 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Morley at 977 and Mrs L Doroshenco at 993. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    30 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • John M Peterkin 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs T Shuttleworth at 24 and Mrs M J Moran at 34. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    292 East 39th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W Peterkin, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • John A Peterkin 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Alexander at 282. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a motorman and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant, Riley Park 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 Ken Peterkin at 985 Broughton Street, a salesman at Con Jones. The 1940 name section lists John M Peterkin at 30 East 12th Avenue. In 1940 the directory lists W Peterkin at 292 East 39th 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 lists William Peterkin there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with John A Peterkin.

Today

985 Broughton, 30 East 12th and 292 East 39th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Peterkins

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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.