A family name on James Street, Riley Park
The Osbornes
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Osborne at one address, 4465 James Street in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Osborn. The directories print the name on 41 other streets too, all listed on the Osborne name's own page.
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The Osbornes at home
- 1
4465 James Street
Riley Park, 1940
- H Osborn, a shipper at Bulman Bros 1940
- Elsie Osborn, a laundress at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: J B Collin at 4459 and S Swann at 4479. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a laundress and a shipper.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 Osborn at 4465 James 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 Henry Osborn there as the householder, a shipper at Bulman Bros, with Elsie Osborn, a laundress at the Vancouver General Hospital.
Today
4465 James still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Osborn H4465 James, p. 91
- Osborn Elsie lndrs Van Genl Hosp4465 James, p. 473
- Osborn Henry shpr Bulman Bros4465 James, p. 473
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Osbornes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Osborne 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.