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A family name on Parker Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The O'Briens

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named O'Brien at two addresses in 1940, all on Parker Street, with the close spelling O'brien. 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 47 other streets too, all listed on the O'Brien name's own page.

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Where the O'Briens 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

    1760 Parker Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Beatrice E O'Brien 1940

    Next door in 1940: R D Bruce at 1750. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2759 Parker Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • J O'Brien, a janitor at Swifts 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Gray at 2739 and I A Jensen at 2765. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a janitor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Beatrice E O'Brien at 1760 Parker Street. J O'Brien is listed at 2759 Parker Street in 1940; 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 lists James O'Brien there as the householder, a janitor at Swifts.

Today

1760 Parker and 2759 Parker still have their buildings from before 1946.

Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret
1932 Mr. Brookhouse's house at 1872 Parker Street, with its corner turret. Not at the house at 2759 Parker: no archive photo of the 2700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4161. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.