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A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

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 Main 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

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

    318 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Harmond Walker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lanning Pool Hall at 314 and N Aihoshi at 320. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    917 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Frank Walker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Better 'Ole (The) at 915 and Machinery Jobbing & Junk Co at 925. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3290 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A J Walker, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E R Young at 3288 and Sun Shoe Repr at 3294. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4405 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs E A Walker, widow of P 1940

    Next door in 1940: W N Matthews at 4403 and O Hollebakken at 4407. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: an orderly. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2) and Strathcona (2). 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 Harmond Walker at 318 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists Frank Walker at 917 Main Street. In 1940 the directory lists A J Walker at 3290 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists Alex J Walker there as the householder, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs E A Walker at 4405 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists Edith A Walker there as the householder, widow of P.

Today

917 Main still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 318 Main, 3290 Main and 4405 Main, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 3290 Main: no archive photo of the 3200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Walkers

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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.