A family name on East 29th Avenue, Renfrew-Collingwood, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Whittakers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Whittaker at one address, 978 East 29th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940, with the close spellings Whitaker and Whitteker. The directories print the name on 38 other streets too, all listed on the Whittaker name's own page.
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The Whittakers at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
978 East 29th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J W G Whittaker, a cashier at the Railway Express Agency 1940
- Bernard J Whittaker, an operator at Spear & Jackson 1940
- Roland F G Whittaker, a school teacher 1940
Next door in 1940: E R King at 966. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a cashier, an operator and a school teacher.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 J W G Whittaker at 978 East 29th 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 John W G Whittaker there as the householder, a cashier at the Railway Express Agency, with Bernard J Whittaker, an operator at Spear & Jackson, and Roland F G Whittaker, a school teacher.
Today
978 East 29th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 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.
- *Whittaker J W G978 East 29th, p. 244
- Whittaker Bernard J opr Spear & Jackson978 East 29th, p. 657
- Whittaker John W G cash Ry Express Agcy978 East 29th, p. 657
- Whittaker Roland F G sch tchr978 East 29th, p. 657
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Whittakers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Whittaker 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.