A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Whettons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Whetton at one address, 6107 Chester Street in Sunset, in 1940.
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The Whettons at home
- 1
6107 Chester Street
Sunset, 1940
- T H Whetton, a carpenter 1940
- Dorothy L Whetton, a stenographer at Macaulay, Nicolls, Maitland 1940
Next door in 1940: H Gilbert at 6117. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a carpenter and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 T H Whetton at 6107 Chester Street; 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 T Henry Whetton there as the householder, a carpenter, with Dorothy L Whetton, a stenographer at Macaulay, Nicolls, Maitland.
Today
6107 Chester (2015) has a newer building, 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.
- *Whetton T H6107 Chester, p. 30
- Whetton Dorothy L sten Macaulay, Nicolls, Maitland6107 Chester, p. 654
- Whetton T Henry carp6107 Chester, p. 654
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Whettons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Whetton 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.