A family name on Keefer Street, Strathcona and Downtown
The Olsens
In the city directories 1925–1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Olsen at two addresses between 1925 and 1940, all on Keefer Street, with the close spelling Olesen. 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 48 other streets too, all listed on the Olsen name's own page.
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Where the Olsens lived
- 1
750 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1925
- A Olsen 1925
Next door in 1925: W McClatchey at 746. The block, door by door
- 2
856 Keefer Street
Strathcona, 1940
- John Olsen, a logger 1940
Next door in 1940: A Pausche at 852 and A Austin at 860. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a logger.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (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 1925 the directory lists A Olsen at 750 Keefer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John Olsen at 856 Keefer Street, a logger.
Today
856 Keefer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1901 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 750 Keefer, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Olsen A750 Keefer, p. 72
Wrigley-Henderson Amalgamated British Columbia Directory, street section
- Olsen John logr856 Keefer, p. 470
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Olsens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Olsen 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.