A family name on Arbutus Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale
The Walkers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Walker at one address, 3875 Arbutus Street in Arbutus Ridge, in 1940. The directories print the name on 138 other streets too, all listed on the Walker name's own page.
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The Walkers at home
Ridge
- 1
3875 Arbutus Street
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- J B Walker, a superintendent at Simonds Canadian Saw 1940
- Clarence C T Walker 1940
- Thelma L Walker, a factory worker for Royal Crown 1940
Next door in 1940: G R Annable at 3857 and J J Cummingham at 3891. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a factory worker and a superintendent.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Arbutus Ridge. 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 B Walker at 3875 Arbutus 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). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John B Walker there as the householder, a superintendent at Simonds Canadian Saw, with Clarence C T Walker, and Thelma L Walker, a factory worker for Royal Crown.
Today
3875 Arbutus still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Walker J B3875 Arbutus, p. 6
- Walker Clarence C T3875 Arbutus, p. 637
- Walker John B supt Simonds Can Saw3875 Arbutus, p. 637
- Walker Thelma L fctywkr Royal Crown3875 Arbutus, p. 638
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.