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A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Walkers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Walker at four addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 138 other streets too, all listed on the Walker name's own page.

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Where the Walkers lived

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).
  1. 1

    169 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J Walker 1940
  2. 2

    508 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Leslie J Walker, a bookkeeper at Ferguson & Hart 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Southby at 504 and F J Epplett at 516. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    617 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs M Walker, widow of J W 1940

    Next door in 1940: J P Freek at 609 and Rev C A Gutensohn at 637. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    816 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C W Walker, a postman 1940
    • Dorothy M Walker, a secretary at the Lions' Gate Riding & Polo Club War Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Horton at 804 and W A Sartain at 824. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a bookkeeper, a postman and a secretary. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4). 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 Walker at 169 East 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists J Walker there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Leslie J Walker at 508 East 12th Avenue, a bookkeeper at Ferguson & Hart.

Mrs M Walker is listed at 617 East 12th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Mary Walker there as the householder, widow of J W. C W Walker is listed at 816 East 12th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Cyril W Walker there as the householder, a postman, with Dorothy M Walker, a secretary at the Lions' Gate Riding & Polo Club War Service.

Today

508 East 12th and 617 East 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 169 East 12th and 816 East 12th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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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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.