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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Osers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address

The directories print five people named Oser at one address, 2627 Balaclava Street in Kitsilano, in 1940.

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The Osers at home

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
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    2627 Balaclava Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • O Oser, proprietor of Lynn Bakery 1940
    • B Joanne Oser, a stenographer at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Charles O Oser 1940
    • Eva Oser, a clerk 1940
    • Gerd K Oser, an accountant at Nelsons Laundries 1940

    Next door in 1940: W T Woodcock at 2633. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: an accountant, a clerk, a proprietor and a stenographer.

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 O Oser at 2627 Balaclava Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Olaf Oser there as the householder, proprietor of Lynn Bakery, with B Joanne Oser, a stenographer at the BC Telephone, Charles O Oser, Eva Oser, a clerk, and Gerd K Oser, an accountant at Nelsons Laundries.

Today

2627 Balaclava still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record.

Campers' cottages and tents among the trees at the foot of Balaclava Street, above the water
1910 Campers' cottages and tents among the trees at the foot of Balaclava Street, above the water. Not at the house at 2627 Balaclava: no archive photo of the 2600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 7-91. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Osers

Every directory, as one book

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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.