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A family name on East 24th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named White at three addresses in 1940, all on East 24th 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 480 East 24th 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

    480 East 24th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs E M White, widow of W S 1940
    • Allan H M White, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940
    • William S White, a clipper at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Thorslund at 464 and A G Thompson at 482. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    486 East 24th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • C White, a derrickman at BC Fir 1940

    Next door in 1940: A G Thompson at 482 and W B Nichols at 496. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2257 East 24th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Margaret White, widow of A 1940

    Next door in 1940: T R Smith at 2249 and A P Ashton at 2267. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a clipper, a derrickman and a laborer. Two of them worked for Canadian White Pine. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (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 Mrs E M White at 480 East 24th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Elizabeth M White there as the householder, widow of W S, with Allan H M White, a laborer at Canadian White Pine, and William S White, a clipper at Canadian White Pine. In 1940 the directory lists C White at 486 East 24th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists C White there as the householder, a derrickman at BC Fir.

The 1940 name section lists Margaret White at 2257 East 24th Avenue, widow of A.

Today

480 East 24th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 486 East 24th and 2257 East 24th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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.