A family name on Railway Street, Strathcona
The Porters
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Porter at one address, 422 Railway Street in Strathcona, 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
- 1
422 Railway Street
Strathcona, 1940
- J A P Porter, a research chemist 1940
Next door in 1940: Gold Dust Corpn (whse) at 432. The block, door by door
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Strathcona. 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 J A P Porter, a research chemist, at 422 Railway Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark).
Today
The City no longer lists 422 Railway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Porter J A P research chemist422 Railway, p. 139
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.