A family name on Robson Street, West End and Downtown
The O'Briens
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named O'Brien at one address, 1124 Robson Street in West End, 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.
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.
The O'Briens at home
- 1
1124 Robson Street
West End, 1940
- John O'Brien 1940
- Timothy O'Brien, a pantryman at the Terminal City Club 1940
Next door in 1940: Moore's Clng & Dyeing at 1122 and Hawes T & Sons at 1126. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a pantryman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West End. 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 John O'Brien at 1124 Robson Street, with Timothy O'Brien, a pantryman at the Terminal City Club.
Today
1124 Robson (2002) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- O'Brien John1124 Robson, p. 467
- O'Brien Timothy pantrymn Term City Club1124 Robson, p. 467
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
The family book reads the O'Brien 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 O. Want a name removed? Tell us.