A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Blomelies
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Blomelie at one address, 920 East 19th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.
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The Blomelies at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
920 East 19th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Rev O K Blomelie, a pastor at the First Lutheran Church 1940
- Helen M Blomelie 1940
- Lillian Blomelie 1940
Next door in 1940: First Luth Ch at 900 and P G Webster at 924. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a pastor.
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 Rev O K Blomelie at 920 East 19th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Rev Olaf K Blomelie there as the householder, a pastor at the First Lutheran Church, with Helen M Blomelie and Lillian Blomelie.
Today
The City no longer lists 920 East 19th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Blomelie Rev O K920 East 19th, p. 228
- Blomelie Helen M920 East 19th, p. 53
- Blomelie Lillian920 East 19th, p. 53
- Blomelie Rev Olaf K pastor First Lutheran Ch920 East 19th, p. 53
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Blomelies
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Blomelie 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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.