A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Walkers
In the city directories 1940 · 248 addresses on 139 streets
The directories print the Walker name at 248 addresses on 139 streets in 1940, in 22 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.
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Where the Walkers lived
- Downtown26 addresses
- West End26 addresses
- Fairview22 addresses
- Kitsilano21 addresses
- Kensington-Cedar Cottage19 addresses
- Mount Pleasant19 addresses
- Riley Park18 addresses
- Hastings-Sunrise12 addresses
- Dunbar-Southlands11 addresses
- Sunset10 addresses
- Kerrisdale9 addresses
- West Point Grey9 addresses
- Grandview-Woodland7 addresses
- Shaughnessy7 addresses
- Renfrew-Collingwood6 addresses
- Strathcona6 addresses
- Victoria-Fraserview5 addresses
- Arbutus Ridge4 addresses
- South Cambie4 addresses
- Killarney3 addresses
- Marpole2 addresses
- Oakridge2 addresses
Where the name was printed
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- 1West 12th AvenueSeven addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; nine people: D Walker, E S Walker and H J C Walker, and six more1940
- 2East 28th AvenueFive addresses in Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; ten people: C M Walker, F W Walker and J Walker, and seven more1940
- 3Robson StreetFive addresses in West End; six people: Edith M Walker, J Walker and Margaret R Walker, and three more1940
- 4West 3rd AvenueFive addresses in Kitsilano and West Point Grey; five people: F L Walker, L A Walker and R L Walker, and two more1940
- 5West 7th AvenueFive addresses in Mount Pleasant and Fairview; six people: Mrs A Walker, Alex Walker and Elizabeth Walker, and three more1940
- 6West 8th AvenueFive addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; seven people: F E Walker, M G Walker and R J Walker, and four more1940
- 7East 12th AvenueFour addresses in Mount Pleasant; five people: C W Walker, J Walker and Mrs M Walker, and two more1940
- 8Haro StreetFour addresses in West End; four people: Florence H Walker, H Walker and Laura Walker, and one more1940
- 9Hornby StreetFour addresses in Downtown; five people: W Walker, Mrs S Walker and Gordon G Walker, and two more1940
- 10Main StreetFour addresses in Strathcona and Riley Park; four people: A J Walker, Mrs E A Walker and Frank Walker, and one more1940
- 11Trafalgar StreetFour addresses in Kitsilano and Arbutus Ridge; seven people: A M Walker, H M Walker and I J Walker, and four more1940
- 12West 11th AvenueFour addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; seven people: H Walker, Mrs I Walker and W I Walker, and four more1940
127 more streets, by name: Alberni Street (1), Arbutus Street (1), Balaclava Street (1), Balsam Street (1), Barclay Street (1), Bayswater Street (1), Beatty Street (1), Burrard Street (1), Bute Street (2), Cambie Street (3), Cartier Street (1), Chester Street (1), Churchill Street (1), Clarendon Street (1), Commercial Drive (1), Comox Street (2), Creelman Avenue (1), Davie Street (1), Denman Street (1), Drummond Drive (1), Dumfries Street (1), Dunbar Street (2), Dundas Street (1), Earles Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 11th Avenue (3), East 13th Avenue (1), East 14th Avenue (2), East 16th Avenue (1), East 18th Avenue (2), East 1st Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (2), East 21st Avenue (3), East 22nd Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 2nd Avenue (3), East 31st Avenue (1), East 38th Avenue (3), East 42nd Avenue (1), East 43rd Avenue (1), East 45th Avenue (2), East 46th Avenue (1), East 49th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 54th Avenue (1), East 56th Avenue (1), East 57th Avenue (2), East 62nd Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (2), East Broadway (1), East Georgia Street (2), East Hastings Street (1), East King Edward Avenue (1), Elm Street (2), Eton Street (1), Fraser Street (1), Fremlin Street (1), Glen Drive (1), Granville Street (2), Harwood Street (1), Homer Street (1), Howe Street (3), Jervis Street (1), John Street (2), Joyce Street (1), Kirkland Street (1), Kitchener Street (1), Maple Street (1), Marguerite Street (1), McCleery Street (1), Nanton Avenue (2), Napier Street (1), Nelson Street (3), North Templeton Drive (1), Ontario Street (3), Oxford Street (2), Pacific Street (1), Pandora Street (1), Pendrell Street (2), Powell Street (1), Prince Albert Street (1), Prince Edward Street (2), Prior Street (2), Quebec Street (1), Richards Street (2), Sophia Street (1), Spruce Street (1), Thurlow Street (3), Triumph Street (1), Tyne Street (1), Venables Street (1), Victoria Drive (1), Welwyn Street (1), West 10th Avenue (2), West 13th Avenue (4), West 14th Avenue (2), West 15th Avenue (4), West 16th Avenue (4), West 17th Avenue (2), West 19th Avenue (1), West 23rd Avenue (1), West 26th Avenue (1), West 28th Avenue (2), West 29th Avenue (2), West 2nd Avenue (2), West 32nd Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (1), West 36th Avenue (1), West 38th Avenue (1), West 39th Avenue (1), West 40th Avenue (1), West 42nd Avenue (3), West 45th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 52nd Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (1), West 60th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (4), West 9th Avenue (1), West Broadway (2), West Georgia Street (3), West Hastings Street (2), West King Edward Avenue (1), West Pender Street (4), Windsor Street (2), Yew Street (1), Yukon Street (1).
Today
By the City's record, of the 248 addresses, 90 still have their buildings from before 1946, one has a building standing whose year the City doesn't record, 51 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 106; each street's page names them.
The book of the Walkers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Walker 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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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under W. Want a name removed? Tell us.