A family name on Haro Street, West End
The Walkers
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Walker at four addresses in 1940, all on Haro Street. 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
- 1
1154 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- Florence H Walker, a supervisor infants' department at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: Hospital Nurses Home Infants at 1152 and Lindsay Lodge at 1168. The block, door by door
- 2
1286 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- H Walker, rooms to let 1940
Next door in 1940: C McMillan at 1282. The block, door by door
- 3
1787 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- Ramona Walker 1940
Next door in 1940: J G Todhunter at 1771. The block, door by door
- 4
2080 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- Laura Walker 1940
Next door in 1940: E V Wakelin at 2036. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a supervisor infants' department.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Florence H Walker at 1154 Haro Street, a supervisor infants' department at the Vancouver General Hospital. H Walker, rooms to let, is listed at 1286 Haro Street 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 Ramona Walker at 1787 Haro Street. The 1940 name section lists Laura Walker at 2080 Haro Street.
Today
The City no longer lists 1154 Haro, 1286 Haro, 1787 Haro and 2080 Haro, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
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.