A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Owens
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Owen at one address, 635 West 12th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940. The directories print the name on 40 other streets too, all listed on the Owen name's own page.
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The Owens at home
- 1
635 West 12th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Rev C C Owen, who worked for the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
- Margaret E Owen, a department manager at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: N E Johnston at 625 and J B Bothwell at 645. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a department manager.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Fairview. 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 Rev C C Owen at 635 West 12th Avenue; 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 Rev Cecil C Owen there as the householder, who worked for the Vancouver General Hospital, with Margaret E Owen, a department manager at Spencer's.
Today
The City no longer lists 635 West 12th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Owen Rev C C635 West 12th, p. 207
- Owen Rev Cecil C host Van Genl Hosp635 West 12th, p. 474
- Owen Margt E dept mgr Spencers635 West 12th, 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.