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A family name on Beatrice Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named White at three addresses in 1940, all on Beatrice Street, with the close spelling Whaite. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Whites at 4104 Beatrice in 1940. The directories print the name on 148 other streets too, all listed on the White name's own page.

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Where the Whites lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    4088 Beatrice Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • H J White, a painter 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Erickson at 4080. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4104 Beatrice Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • P C LeR White, a painter 1940
    • Joseph Le R White, retired 1940
    • Oona N White 1940
  3. 3

    4413 Beatrice Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Dorothy E White, a comptroller operator at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940
    • Ruby E White, a comptroller operator at BC Sugar 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Abel at 4431. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a comptroller operator (2) and a painter (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (3). 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 H J White at 4088 Beatrice 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 Howard J White there as the householder, a painter. In 1940 the directory lists P C LeR White at 4104 Beatrice Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Percy C Le R White there, a painter, with Joseph Le R White, retired, and Oona N White.

The 1940 name section lists Dorothy E White at 4413 Beatrice Street, a comptroller operator at Macdonalds Consolidated, with Ruby E White, a comptroller operator at BC Sugar.

Today

4088 Beatrice (1978) and 4413 Beatrice (1997) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 4104 Beatrice, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.