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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Otts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Ott at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Otts lived

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).
  1. 1

    901 Jervis Street

    West End, 1940

    • Gladys Ott, a typist at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Albutt at 909. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4361 Marguerite Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Kath Ott, a maid at G L Plant 1940

    Next door in 1940: K S Vaughan at 4337 and R A Neale at 4387. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2862 Triumph Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • P J Ott, a clerk at the Liquor Control Board 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Spence at 2858. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a maid and a typist.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise, Shaughnessy and West End. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gladys Ott at 901 Jervis Street, a typist at the Hudson's Bay Company. The 1940 name section lists Kath Ott at 4361 Marguerite Street, a maid at G L Plant. In 1940 the directory lists P J Ott at 2862 Triumph Street. The 1940 name section lists Phillip J Ott there as the householder, a clerk at the Liquor Control Board.

Today

2862 Triumph still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; 901 Jervis (1958) and 4361 Marguerite (1992) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Otts

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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.