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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Owen-Joneses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Owen-Jones at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Owen-Joneses 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

    6150 Carnarvon Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • B Owen-Jones, a quartermaster at the Union Steamship Company 1940
    • Doanie E Owen-Jones, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Davies at 6116 and H R Fullerton at 6184. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4432 Collingwood Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Geoffrey C Owen-Jones, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • R Vivienne M Owen-Jones, a domestic 1940

    Next door in 1940: E S Nagle at 4444. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3546 West 34th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • A H Owen-Jones, a constable at the RCMP 1940

    Next door in 1940: E M Eaton at 3556. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a constable, a domestic, a quartermaster, a salesman and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2) and Kerrisdale. 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 Owen-Jones at 6150 Carnarvon 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 Bertram Owen-Jones there as the householder, retired, with Bertram G K Owen-Jones, a quartermaster at the Union Steamship Company, and Doanie E Owen-Jones, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Geoffrey C Owen-Jones at 4432 Collingwood Street, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company, with R Vivienne M Owen-Jones, a domestic.

A H Owen-Jones is listed at 3546 West 34th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Arthur H Owen-Jones there as the householder, a constable at the RCMP.

Today

6150 Carnarvon, 4432 Collingwood and 3546 West 34th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.