A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Whites
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named White at two addresses in 1940, all on Kingsway, 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 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
245 Kingsway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- N P White, a clerk at the St Regis Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: J Carruthers at 235 and Shell Oil at 265. The block, door by door
- 2
664 Kingsway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Celia White, a waitress at Silk Hat 1940
Next door in 1940: W Ready at 662 and Kway Clnrs at 666. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a waitress.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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 N P White at 245 Kingsway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Norman P White there as the householder, a clerk at the St Regis Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Celia White at 664 Kingsway, a waitress at Silk Hat.
Today
664 Kingsway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 245 Kingsway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- White N P245 Kingsway, p. 97
- White Norman P clk St Regis Hotel245 Kingsway, p. 655
- White Celia waitress Silk Hat664 Kingsway, p. 654
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.