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A family name on Elm Street, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale

The Walkers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Walker at two addresses in 1940, all on Elm Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    5611 Elm Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • J R Walker, a freight superintendent at BC Motor Transportation 1940

    Next door in 1940: J B Hughes at 5637. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5998 Elm Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Lloyd E Walker, a warehouseman at Crawford Storage 1940

    Next door in 1940: H J Fuller at 5974. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a freight superintendent and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale. 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 R Walker at 5611 Elm Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John R Walker there as the householder, a freight superintendent at BC Motor Transportation, with John Walker, a laborer at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Lloyd E Walker at 5998 Elm Street, a warehouseman at Crawford Storage.

Today

5611 Elm still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5998 Elm, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street
1911 or 1912 Men inspecting a new sewer trench along Wilson Road (41st Avenue), looking east from Elm Street. Not at the house at 5611 Elm: no archive photo of the 5600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-1033. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Walkers

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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.