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A family name on Lanark Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named White at three addresses in 1940, all on Lanark Street, 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: four Whites at 6140 Lanark 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    5477 Lanark Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R B White, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: J P Hobson at 5431. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6140 Lanark Street

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • Mrs F E White 1940
    • Florence E White, an examiner at Mackay, Smith, Blair 1940
    • Mary S White, an operator at Mackay Smith, Blair 1940
    • Robert White, a warehouseman at Dickson Importing 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Voth at 6130. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    6537 Lanark Street

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • D E White, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Doughty at 6549. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: an examiner, a laborer, an operator and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Victoria-Fraserview (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 R B White at 5477 Lanark Street; 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 Ray B White there as the householder, retired. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs F E White at 6140 Lanark Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Florence E White there as the householder, with Florence E White, an examiner at Mackay, Smith, Blair, Mary S White, an operator at Mackay Smith, Blair, and Robert White, a warehouseman at Dickson Importing.

In 1940 the directory lists D E White at 6537 Lanark Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists David E White there as the householder, a laborer at Canadian White Pine.

Today

5477 Lanark (1999), 6140 Lanark (1982) and 6537 Lanark (1982) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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, street section

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.