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A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named White at four addresses in 1940, all on East 22nd 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 most under one roof: three Whites at 1206 East 22nd 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

    1015 East 22nd Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mildred White, a waitress at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Markham at 1009 and R Broome at 1025. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1206 East 22nd Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W J White, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • Charlotte White, widow of J S 1940
    • Frederick W White, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Howes at 1216. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1461 East 22nd Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • N White, a supervisor at Wells Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Fripp at 1457 and B J Loughran at 1473. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2751 East 22nd Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • W T White, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J MacKenzie at 2715 and J McGinnis at 2755. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a longshoreman, a manufacturers agent, a salesman, a supervisor and a waitress. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (3) and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 Mildred White at 1015 East 22nd Avenue, a waitress at Woodward's. W J White, a manufacturers agent, is listed at 1206 East 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Wilfred J White there, a manufacturers agent, with Charlotte White, widow of J S, and Frederick W White, a salesman.

N White is listed at 1461 East 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Neil White there as the householder, a supervisor at Wells Ltd. W T White is listed at 2751 East 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Westley T White there as the householder, a longshoreman.

Today

1015 East 22nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; 1206 East 22nd (2020) and 1461 East 22nd (1984) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2751 East 22nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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

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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.