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A family name on Ontario Street, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, Oakridge, Sunset and Marpole

The O'Briens

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named O'Brien at one address, 2940 Ontario Street in Mount Pleasant, 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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    2940 Ontario Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J O'Brien, a jeweller at Jacoby Bros 1940
    • Benjamin O'Brien, an upholsterer at Simmons 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Plaxton at 2934 and A Burman at 2946. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a jeweller and an upholsterer.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 O'Brien, a music teacher, at 2940 Ontario Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Joseph O'Brien there, a music teacher, with Joseph O'Brien Jr, a jeweller at Jacoby Bros, and Benjamin O'Brien, an upholsterer at Simmons.

Today

2940 Ontario still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record.

A large group, Rev. Ebenezer Robson among them, in front of Mount Pleasant Methodist Church
About 1907 A large group, Rev. Ebenezer Robson among them, in front of Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. Not at the house at 2940 Ontario: no archive photo of the 2900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Ch P166. Public domain.

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.