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A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named White at three addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue, 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 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    517 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J White, a waiter at Scott's Cafe 1940
    • Pearl A White 1940

    Next door in 1940: O S Horton at 523. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1062 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Isabella White, widow of D 1940

    Next door in 1940: F W Berg at 1056 and Mrs E Archer at 1074. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1478 East 12th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R H White, a floor sander 1940

    Next door in 1940: D B Campbell at 1470. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a floor sander and a waiter. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and 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 J White at 517 East 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James White there as the householder, a waiter at Scott's Cafe, with Pearl A White. The 1940 name section lists Isabella White at 1062 East 12th Avenue, widow of D.

R H White, a floor sander, is listed at 1478 East 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ralph H White there, a floor sander.

Today

1062 East 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 517 East 12th (1977) and 1478 East 12th (2017) have newer buildings, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Whites

Every directory, as one book

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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.