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A family name on West 17th Avenue, South Cambie, Riley Park, Shaughnessy, Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands

The Whites

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named White at two addresses in 1940, all on West 17th Avenue, 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

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

    351 West 17th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Charles White, a student at UBC 1940
    • Mrs Elise White 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Millar at 341 and J Burke at 361. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    584 West 17th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Miss V J White 1940
    • V Jane White, a stenographer at North Pacific Shipping 1940

    Next door in 1940: J K More at 580 and F M Campbell at 588. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and South Cambie. 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 Charles White at 351 West 17th Avenue, a student at UBC, with Mrs Elise White. Miss V J White is listed at 584 West 17th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists V Jane White there as the householder, a stenographer at North Pacific Shipping.

Today

351 West 17th (2013) and 584 West 17th (2018) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 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

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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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.