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A family name on Bidwell Street, West End

The Porters

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Porter at one address, 1306 Bidwell Street in West End, in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Porter name's own page.

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The Porters at home

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    1306 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs L A Porter 1940
    • June Porter, a telephone operator at Vancouver Welfare Fed 1940
    • Rosamond F Porter, an operator at the Royal Bank 1940

    Next door in 1940: F R H Insley at 1318. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an operator and a telephone operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs L A Porter at 1306 Bidwell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Lillian A Porter there as the householder, with June Porter, a telephone operator at Vancouver Welfare Fed, and Rosamond F Porter, an operator at the Royal Bank.

Today

1306 Bidwell still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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 Porters

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.