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A family name on East 1st Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named White at two addresses in 1940, all on East 1st Avenue, with the close spelling Whaite. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Whites at 2086 East 1st 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1782 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Stewart White, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Taylor at 1780. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2086 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W A White, a master mariner at S S Bervin Co 1940
    • Estelle L White, a packer at Famous Foods 1940
    • Grace J White, a packer at Famous Foods 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Calbick at 2076. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a packer (2), a master mariner and an on active service. Two of them worked for Famous Foods.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Stewart White at 1782 East 1st Avenue, on active service. W A White is listed at 2086 East 1st Avenue in 1940; 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 lists William A White there as the householder, a master mariner at S S Bervin Co, with Estelle L White, a packer at Famous Foods, and Grace J White, a packer at Famous Foods.

Today

The City no longer lists 1782 East 1st and 2086 East 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.