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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

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 West 16th 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 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

    245 West 16th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Agnes White, widow of W 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr J R Atkinson at 241. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1551 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs M E White, widow of C T 1940
    • Dorothy M White, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: st charles apts at 1535 and york manor at 1565. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1591 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • C W White, a chart accountant 1940
    • June D White, a telephone operator for Boultbee Sweet 1940

    Next door in 1940: gloucester court at 1575. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a chart accountant, a stenographer and a telephone operator. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Riley Park. 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 Agnes White at 245 West 16th Avenue, widow of W. Mrs M E White is listed at 1551 West 16th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Margaret E White there as the householder, widow of C T, with Dorothy M White, a stenographer.

C W White is listed at 1591 West 16th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Charles W White there as the householder, a chart accountant, with June D White, a telephone operator for Boultbee Sweet.

Today

1551 West 16th and 1591 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 245 West 16th, so that building is 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Whites

Every directory, as one book

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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.