A family name on Osler Street, Shaughnessy and Marpole
The Frasers
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Fraser at two addresses in 1940, all on Osler Street. 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 138 other streets too, all listed on the Fraser name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
Where the Frasers lived
- 1
3498 Osler Street
Shaughnessy, 1940
- Clayton C Fraser, a riveter at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
Next door in 1940: Hon M A Macdonald at 3450. The block, door by door
- 2
4792 Osler Street
Shaughnessy, 1940
- Ida Fraser, a maid for H H Boucher 1940
Next door in 1940: B S Mackid at 4776. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a maid and a riveter.
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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Clayton C Fraser at 3498 Osler Street, a riveter at the Burrard Dry Dock. The 1940 name section lists Ida Fraser at 4792 Osler Street, a maid for H H Boucher.
Today
3498 Osler and 4792 Osler still have their buildings from before 1946, 3498 Osler on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Fraser Clayton C riveter Burrard Dry Dock3498 Osler, p. 208
- Fraser Ida maid H H Boucher4792 Osler, p. 208
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Frasers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Fraser 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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.