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A family name on Garden Drive, Grandview-Woodland and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The O'Briens

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named O'Brien at one address, 3444 Garden Drive in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940, with the close spelling O'brien. The directories print the name on 47 other streets too, all listed on the O'Brien name's own page.

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The O'Briens at home

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).
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    3444 Garden Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T O'Brien, a fisherman 1940
    • Alice M O'Brien, a saleswoman 1940
    • Helen R O'Brien, a saleswoman at Famous 1940

    Next door in 1940: J E Ciaffone at 3404 and R McInnes at 3464. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a saleswoman (2) and a fisherman.

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 T O'Brien at 3444 Garden Drive; 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 Thomas O'Brien there as the householder, a fisherman, with Alice M O'Brien, a saleswoman, and Helen R O'Brien, a saleswoman at Famous.

Today

3444 Garden Drive (1973) has a newer building, 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, street section

The book of the O'Briens

Every directory, as one book

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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 O. Want a name removed? Tell us.