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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Whittalls

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Whittall at two addresses in 1940 in Shaughnessy. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Whittalls 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

    3974 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • N R Whittall, a director at Ross Whittall Ltd 1940
    • James W Whittall, an insurance agent at B L Johnson Walton 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L C Crowe at 3926. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5316 Hudson Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • H V Whittall, a vice-president at H-M Shingle 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a director, an insurance agent and a vice-president.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (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 R Whittall at 3974 Angus Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Norman R Whittall there as the householder, a director at Ross Whittall Ltd, with James W Whittall, an insurance agent at B L Johnson Walton. In 1940 the directory lists H V Whittall at 5316 Hudson Street. The 1940 name section lists Hubert V Whittall there as the householder, a vice-president at H-M Shingle.

Today

The City no longer lists 3974 Angus Drive and 5316 Hudson, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 3974 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 3900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Whittalls

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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.