A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The Olivers
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Oliver at one address, 1980 West 1st Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940, with the close spellings Olivier and Olver. The directories print the name on 50 other streets too, all listed on the Oliver 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 Olivers at home
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1980 West 1st Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- B S Oliver, a machinist at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: Bullen Bros Bky at 1974 and gerry's grocery at 1986. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a machinist.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 B S Oliver at 1980 West 1st Avenue; 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 Bertram S Oliver there as the householder, a machinist at the CPR.
Today
1980 West 1st (1966) 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.
- *Oliver B S1980 West 1st, p. 173
- Oliver Bertram S mach CPR1980 West 1st, p. 470
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.