A family name on West 15th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Websters
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Webster at one address, 1379 West 15th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940. The directories print the name on 60 other streets too, all listed on the Webster name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Websters at home
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1379 West 15th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Mrs C E Webster, widow of A V 1940
- Kathleen E Webster, a social service worker at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: st george's apts at 1375 and Mrs K F Robinson at 1381. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a social service worker. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Fairview. 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 Mrs C E Webster at 1379 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charlotte E Webster there as the householder, widow of A V, with Kathleen E Webster, a social service worker at the City of Vancouver.
Today
1379 West 15th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Webster Mrs C E1379 West 15th, p. 219
- Webster Charlotte E wid A V1379 West 15th, p. 647
- Webster Kathleen E soc serv wkr Van City1379 West 15th, 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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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.