A family name on East 17th Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Websters
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Webster at one address, 1264 East 17th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 60 other streets too, all listed on the Webster name's own page.
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The Websters at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1264 East 17th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- G W Webster, a superintendent at Vic & Vancouver Stevedoring 1940
- Elizabeth J M Webster, a stenographer 1940
- Irene Webster, a stenographer 1940
- Margaret Webster, a student 1940
- Sadie Webster, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: J W McConnell at 1250 and W E Caine at 1286. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a stenographer (3) and a superintendent.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 G W Webster at 1264 East 17th Avenue; 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 George W Webster there as the householder, a superintendent at Vic & Vancouver Stevedoring, with Elizabeth J M Webster, a stenographer, Irene Webster, a stenographer, Margaret Webster, a student, and Sadie Webster, a stenographer.
Today
1264 East 17th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Webster G W1264 East 17th, p. 224
- Webster Eliz J M sten 20th Century Fox Corp1264 East 17th, p. 647
- Webster Geo W supt Vic & Van Stevedoring1264 East 17th, p. 647
- Webster Irene sten Empire Tbr Exprtrs1264 East 17th, p. 647
- Webster Margt studt1264 East 17th, p. 647
- Webster Sadie sten1264 East 17th, p. 647
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Websters
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Webster 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.