A family name on Franklin Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise
The Porters
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Porter at one address, 1862 Franklin Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Porter name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Porters at home
Woodland
- 1
1862 Franklin Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- G Isabel Porter, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: J E Baker at 1860 and F W West at 1868. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 G Isabel Porter at 1862 Franklin Street, a stenographer.
Today
1862 Franklin (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Porter G Isabel sten1862 Franklin, p. 499
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Porters
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Porter 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.