A family name on East 51st Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney
The Owens
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Owen at one address, 471 East 51st Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 40 other streets too, all listed on the Owen name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Owens at home
- 1
471 East 51st Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- Mrs L Owen 1940
- C Owen, who worked for Jones Tent & Awning 1940
- R Thomas Owen, an apprentice at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: A O Larson at 467 and I A Westcott at 479. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an apprentice and an employee.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 Mrs L Owen at 471 East 51st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Lizzie Owen there as the householder, with C Owen, who worked for Jones Tent & Awning, and R Thomas Owen, an apprentice at the CPR.
Today
The City no longer lists 471 East 51st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Owen Mrs L471 East 51st, p. 266
- Owen C emp Jones Tent & Awning471 East 51st, p. 474
- Owen Mrs Lizzie471 East 51st, p. 475
- Owen R Thos appr CPR471 East 51st, p. 475
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Owens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Owen 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.