Vancouver / Names / S / Slater / West 16th Avenue

A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

The Slaters

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Slater at one address, 625 West 16th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940. The directories print the name on 34 other streets too, all listed on the Slater name's own page.

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The Slaters at home

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).
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    625 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs E M Slater, widow of G E 1940
    • Edith H Slater, a laundress at Monastery Laundry 1940
    • George R Slater, a swamper 1940
    • Irene M Slater, a laundress at Monastery Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Spears at 601 and A Horen at 645. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a laundress (2) and a swamper. Two of them worked for Monastery Laundry. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Fairview. 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 E M Slater at 625 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edith M Slater there as the householder, widow of G E, with Edith H Slater, a laundress at Monastery Laundry, George R Slater, a swamper, and Irene M Slater, a laundress at Monastery Laundry.

Today

The City no longer lists 625 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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, street section

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.