A family name on Haro Street, West End
The Olivers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Oliver at two addresses in 1940, all on Haro Street, with the close spellings Olivier and Olver. 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 50 other streets too, all listed on the Oliver name's own page.
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Where the Olivers lived
- 1
1144 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- H C Oliver, an accountant at the West Canadian Hydro Electric 1940
- Joan K Oliver 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M P Denholm at 1132 and D McL Robertson at 1150. The block, door by door
- 2
1168 Haro Street
West End, 1940
- Bruce Oliver 1940
Next door in 1940: Infants Hosp (VGH) at 1154 and W J Tyacke at 1172. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an accountant.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (2). 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 C Oliver at 1144 Haro Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Hugh C Oliver there as the householder, an accountant at the West Canadian Hydro Electric, with Joan K Oliver. The 1940 name section lists Bruce Oliver at 1168 Haro Street.
Today
The City no longer lists 1144 Haro and 1168 Haro, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
The book of the Olivers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Oliver 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.