A family name on East 21st Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
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 21st 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 1435 East 21st 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
- 1
835 East 21st Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- G T White, a decorator 1940
Next door in 1940: A J Kelly at 825 and Mrs A Cairney at 869. The block, door by door
- 2
1435 East 21st Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- P C White, a car repairer at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- Fraser E White 1940
- Viola M White, a packer at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940
Next door in 1940: L H Jorgensen at 1425 and E M Broderick at 1441. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a car repairer, a decorator and a packer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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
In 1940 the directory lists G T White at 835 East 21st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George T White there as the householder, a decorator. In 1940 the directory lists P C White at 1435 East 21st Avenue; 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 Percy C White there as the householder, a car repairer at the BC Electric Railway, with Fraser E White, and Viola M White, a packer at Macdonalds Consolidated.
Today
1435 East 21st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1907 by the City's record; 835 East 21st (1999) has a newer building, 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.
- White G T835 East 21st, p. 232
- White Geo T decrtr835 East 21st, p. 655
- *White P C1435 East 21st, p. 232
- White Fraser E1435 East 21st, p. 655
- White Percy C car repr BCER1435 East 21st, p. 656
- White Viola M pkr Macdonalds Consol1435 East 21st, p. 656
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Whites
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the White 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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Another name, or a house
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.