A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Ockendens
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Ockenden at one address, 3526 Oxford Street in Hastings-Sunrise, in 1940.
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The Ockendens at home
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3526 Oxford Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- H T Ockenden, a shipper at Forst's 1940
- H Frank Ockenden, who worked for Forst's 1940
- Victor C Ockenden, a helper at Owl Drug 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss M H Menzies at 3516 and Mrs S Humphrey at 3528. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: an employee, a helper and a shipper. Two of them worked for Forst's.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists H T Ockenden at 3526 Oxford Street; 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 Herbert T Ockenden there as the householder, a shipper at Forst's, with H Frank Ockenden, who worked for Forst's, and Victor C Ockenden, a helper at Owl Drug.
Today
3526 Oxford still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 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.
- *Ockenden H T3526 Oxford, p. 124
- Ockenden H Frank emp Forst's3526 Oxford, p. 467
- Ockenden Herbt T shpr Forst's3526 Oxford, p. 467
- Ockenden Victor C hlpr Owl Drug3526 Oxford, p. 467
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Ockendens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Ockenden 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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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.