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City directories as research resources: Municipal Hall foyer display spring 2023
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Many of the directories are online for the years 1860-1955: https://bccd.vpl.ca/
Image caption: Advertisement for the Union Hotel, from the First Victoria Directory https://bccd.vpl.ca/title/1860/First_Victoria_Directory.html
"This House is now conducted on the same principle as the "What Cheer House" of San Francisco. Board, per day $1.00. Rooms at $1 and $2 per week. Wash and Bath Room; also, a Select Private Reading Room with a Library of choice Books, Atlantic, European and California Newspapers."
Vancouver Public Library’s online collection of digitized British Columbia city directories dates from 1860 up to and including 1955. The directories contain detailed historical information about communities throughout the province, including:
- listings of individuals and businesses in Vancouver and Victoria (sometimes other communities as well, depending on the directory), indexed by name and by street
- population figures
- government listings
- operating newspapers
- schools and libraries .
Updated regularly, the directories document the growth, development and progress of British Columbia over the years.
You can use the directories to track the history of streets, communities and individual homes, find your ancestors, and research the history of companies and institutions.
Depending on the period and the directory, you may be able to find out:
- whether the occupant of a property was the owner or a renter
- the volume of different kinds of fish caught in BC in a given year
- individuals' occupations/employers/work places
- how many staff were in the local police or fire departments
- which houses in a street were vacant, new, or under construction in that year
- a street's former name
and many other kinds of information. The advertisements and illustrations also provide insight into the social norms, fashions and attitudes prevailing throughout the period.
– from https://bccd.vpl.ca/, adapted & edited
Image caption: "This Little Library Can Answer 945,000,000 Questions." Advertisement for directory reference libraries, once found across the US and Canada, located within e.g. Chambers of Commerce or public libraries. Nowadays, many historic directories have been digitized and are available online; local archives are often a good source of the hard copy volumes. - Image from a Wrigley Directory.
To avoid overwhelm at the thought of those 945 billion questions, this post will concentrate on navigating some promises and pitfalls of the street indexes, which continue in the city directories held in hard copy at Oak Bay Archives up to 1998. After that we have BC Tel/Telus/CanPages telephone directories for most years to 2016, but with increasing numbers of people choosing to go ex-directory (delisted), and directories indexing by name only, these are not nearly as comprehensive, or in certain ways as useful, as the city directories.
Image caption: The first listing of Oak Bay Avenue in the streets index, Williams' Directory, 1894.
NB! The order of listing properties on a street may change over time or according to different directory publishers. In this example, the north side is listed first, west to east, from Cadboro Bay Road (Fort) to Oak Bay, by which they mean the body of water, i.e. the eastern end of Oak Bay Avenue. Then the south side is listed *in the other direction*, east to west. This isn't explicit, and isn't obvious from street numbers, which weren't used yet - it has to be understood from the sequence of cross streets, which also often helps to sort out street name changes.
Remember that west of Foul Bay Road, Oak Bay Avenue is not in the municipality of Oak Bay! It's part of the City of Victoria, so this list from viHistory may be a useful shortcut - but not always. The first cross street listed on Oak Bay Ave is Hurlton Street, which we don't know by that name today. See Fire Insurance plans vol 2 (below) for the solution - Hurlton is now Redfern St. It's sometimes on maps as Hulton rather than Hurlton.
Beware inconsistent/changing formats in directory listings over time, and missing sections! Compare entries for Hampshire Road in 1900, 1910 and 1920:
Image caption: 1900 Henderson's Directory entry for "Hampshire Road, off Oak Bay Ave". There's no indication here of whether this is north or south of Oak Bay Avenue - for that we need to look at a year with more development on Hampshire and therefore detail in the directory.
(Where possible, we should also cross-check with a different source - here's the entry for the William Henry Noble House in the National Register of Historic Places, which gives a clue.)
Image caption: 1910 Henderson's Directory entry for "from 2250 Oak Bay Ave to Cranmore Road". South of the Avenue is only Noble's farm, while the intervening decade has seen considerable building on Hampshire (both sides, odd and even numbers) immediately north of Oak Bay Avenue. For the history of this section of Hampshire, known as Junction Road, see Gary Wilcox's account here. But as we follow Hampshire north of the Avenue, this raises another question: "Jolimont" at what is now 1936 Hampshire was already there, long since built in 1892, just north of Cranmore. When and how is it listed? That will have to be the subject of another post...
Image caption: 1920 Henderson's Directory entry for "from Central Avenue to 2200 Oak Bay Avenue". This list shows the development south of the Avenue in the 20 years since the sole entry for Noble's Farm. But where is the listing for Hampshire north of Cranmore? It's not present in the 1921 directory either. Let's check for a known cross street's own listing: Cranmore. The cross-street listing in Cranmore Road's entry reveals that Hampshire Road north of Oak Bay Avenue is separately named as... North Hampshire, under N. Wilcox above notes the sequence of name changes for this section of what now is all Hampshire, but we have to keep this in mind when using the contemporary directories too.
False Friends: The Case of the Disappearing Orchard
- a worked example of historical detective work based on information from the digitized city directories and other core sources.
As we have already seen, many streets' names have changed over the decades, and many names occur multiple times in different municipalities (and occasionally in the same one), sometimes during the same period. Directory descriptions (often) help to clarify which is referred to. For instance: let’s trace the history of Orchard Avenue in south Oak Bay, starting in the 1899-1900 directory.
It's a small street, only about a dozen houses long, so that should be straightforward… but we immediately hit a bump: the only Orchard listed in the street index is described as extending “from Government to Oak Bay Ave”. There are only two addresses listed on this street, both industrial businesses (a sash & door company and an iron works). This is definitely not the Orchard Avenue we are thinking of! So where is that Orchard, and what’s this one?
Let’s use the door factory as the focus of our fact-finding. From the names index of the 1899 directory we find the description
"Lemon, Gonasson & Co., Capital Planing Mills, Sash, Mantles, Band-Sawing, Doors, Moldings, Turning &c. Orchard, near Government, Rock Bay." In the 1899 directory, street numbers aren’t used here yet – but we know they eventually were. Did Lemon Gonasson & Co stay at the same address long enough to acquire a street address? If so, we’ll find out the 100-block of Orchard in relation to Government. They did, and the 1913 directory does give us an address with a number: 2324 Government.
Lemon Gonasson are still at the same address, 2324 Government, in 1925. But despite Lemon Gonasson retaining it as part of their Government St address, Orchard St in Rock Bay is no longer listed in the streets index as of the 1914 directories. Meanwhile, Orchard Avenue in south Oak Bay has appeared.
The viHistory list at
https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~taprhist/content/documents/streetname_changes.php
lists many streets’ former names, but doesn’t include this one.
Again, a helpful feature of the street indexes is the inclusion of cross streets. The Government St entry in 1914 shows the location of Lemon Gonasson at the corner of Orchard, which runs parallel to and between Queens and Bay, and has one end at Government.
Note, though, that Orchard is listed as a cross street in the Tregillus-Thompson directory but not in the Henderson's. When in doubt, and where alternates are available, cross-check.
The 1899 directory states that it ran from Government to Oak Bay Avenue, but it certainly doesn’t now. So what happened to it? The cross streets give us a sufficiently specific location to start looking at maps.
The 1911-16 Fire Insurance Plan makes it clear:
[Image shows a section of the 1911-16 Fire Insurance Plan, detail centred on the intersection of Government & Bay Streets in Victoria. The map has been modified to highlight Orchard Street in blue.] Orchard was a small street in two sections, running between and parallel to Queens, just as we expected, from 1) Railroad Ave to Douglas and 2) Government to Rock Bay Avenue. Earlier maps show only the western section, and I haven't tried to find out when it first appears - well outwith my Oak Bay bailiwick. The eastern piece of Orchard Street survives today as Field Street, at the back of the Armouries.
Conclusion: “Oak Bay Ave” in the 1899 directory is a mistake for “Rock Bay Ave”.
Image caption: Detail showing Orchard St in Rock Bay, highlighting added. University of Victoria Fire Insurance Maps Collection. Vol.1 p.3. Page 19 shows even more detail of the Lemon Gonasson premises.
https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/fd82fe38-5b56-4ce5-aea9-eb0781fa5570?locale=en
To close with some more illustrated ads from the directories,
Image caption: a selection of ads from the side bars of city directories, 1920s-1930s.
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- Post by Anna Sander, 5 May 2023.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2023, May). 'City directories as research resources: Municipal Hall foyer display spring 2023.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/city-directories-as-research-resources-municipal-hall-foyer-display-spring-2023 [date accessed].
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Marrion Street: photos of an Oak Bay street that disappeared
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Marrion Street, first laid out as Prospect Road (not to be confused with Prospect Place) in the early 1890s, was a short road extending southeast from the junction of Fort x Foul Bay. Its first residents were Alfred Howell & family. It was renamed in 1910/11 for Robert Marrion, a settler prior to 1906. It’s one of few (the only?) Oak Bay streets to have disappeared; all properties were purchased by the municipality in the 1970s to develop the Oak Bay Recreation Centre on Bee St. The street’s name is perpetuated in Marrion Village seniors' housing complex.
These photos of houses on Marrion St were taken for one of the municipal Finance Department’s series of appraisal cards (OBA CR 140 AC-L), 1950s-1970s. In most cases they are the only photos in the Archives of these houses. A notable exception is the Howell house (no number as Prospect Road, first numbered 1940 Marrion, later renumbered 2064 Marrion), which appears in several of resident Bert Howell's photos (OBA PR 198).
Browse all 1800 photos in this series @OakBayArchives on Flickr: https://bit.ly/3SH0ERD
Parts of this display were mounted in the exterior (parking lot) and Archives corridor display cases at Municipal Hall in October 2022.
Browse all 1800 photos in this series @OakBayArchives on Flickr: https://bit.ly/3SH0ERD
These images were created in the course of District business by District staff after 1948, and remain in copyright (c) The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay.
Questions? Please get in touch!
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- Post by Anna Sander, 6 October 2022.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2022, October). 'Marrion Street: photos of an Oak Bay street that disappeared.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/marrion-street-photos-of-an-oak-bay-stree-that-disappeared [date accessed].
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A new look at old photos: Oak Bay properties in appraisal cards - Municipal Hall foyer display Aug-Sept 2022
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Much of my Oak Bay working time in August was taken up with making a large collection of photos of Oak Bay properties, taken from historic long appraisal cards (municipal Finance department, Archives series CR 140 AC-L), available online.
90%, almost 5000 cards, were scanned by Archives volunteers 2017-2020; I finished photographing the final 550 ahead of the 2021 MH renovation work. This year, the next layer of processing: renaming the files to include their archival reference code as well as the relevant street address, extracting the small photos from each image (photos are typically in the top right hand corner of the card and measure 2x3"), watermarking each photo, uploading batches of photos, and checking for errors at each stage.
Why watermark photos? To make it easy for researchers to find the source. Digital images take on a life of their own and, in practical terms, just aren't 'controllable' once they're online; they often circulate informally without captions or dates, let alone any other original contextual information, link back, or acknowledgement, and it's important that someone who finds one photo of interest is able to get in touch and investigate the possibility of more images and information relevant to their research. That's it.
The photos are not dated; the cards were in use 1950s-1970s. This series of historic appraisal cards is not complete for every property or street in Oak Bay, and not every extant card includes a photo.
Browse all 1800 photos in this series @OakBayArchives on Flickr: https://bit.ly/3SH0ERD
As part of the Oak Bay Village history project, this foyer display focuses on photographs of Oak Bay Avenue properties from the long appraisal cards. NB street addresses on these photos are those on the corresponding cards, but some may have changed over time - another reason to get in touch before using!
These images were created in the course of District business by District staff after 1948, and remain in copyright (c) The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay.
Questions? Please get in touch!
Website: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives
Photo Search: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives/photographs
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Email: archives@oakbay.ca
Phone: 250-598-3290
- Post by Anna Sander, 2 September 2022.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2022, September). 'A new look at historic photos of Oak Bay properties - Municipal Hall foyer display Aug-Sept 2022'. [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/a-new-look-at-historic-photos-of-oak-bay-properties-municipal-hall-foyer-display-aug-sept-2022 [date].
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Sport & Recreation in Oak Bay - Municipal Hall foyer display July 2022
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The July theme over at Explore Your Archive on Twitter @explorearchives, run by the Archives & Records Association of the UK and Ireland is SPORT! To join in on Twitter, follow #EYASport and #ExploreArchives . I've adapted this to Sport & Recreation - where's the line?
George Murdoch, Reeve of Oak Bay, provides considerable detail about the history of sports and recreation in Oak Bay in his history (1968), pp.186-193: click here
OBA PR 235 Taylor Album 1.17C Sack race at the Drake Hardware company picnic [nd, ca 1914]. Definitely a sport, especially with hats. Samuel J Drake was Reeve of Oak Bay 1920-22 Richard Ratcliffe Taylor, company secretary at Drake Hardware, was also Reeve 1936-40.
OBA PHOT 2012-001-004 Horse racing at Willows Park (Exhibition Fairgrounds), now Carnarvon Park area. Looking up Lansdowne slope: houses at top right are on Cadboro Bay Road, electricity poles across the top of the slope indicate Lansdowne Road. Photographer unknown. [nd, ca. 1930.]
OBA PHOT 2012-001-104 Oak Bay minor hockey team at Esquimalt Arena, ca. 1985
OBA 2012-001-106 Boys’ soccer team in front of the original Windsor Park Pavilion. Tom Whittemore back row far left, Walter C Brynjolfson back row far right. Photographer: Wilfred Gibson, 1940-1941
OBA PHOT 2012-001-052 Victoria Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1886) members at their second location at Foul Bay Road x Fort, occupied 1910-1966. Photo ca 1937. Not to be confused with Oak Bay Tennis Club, founded 1911 as BC Electric & Railway Tennis Club, based first at Oak Bay Park (now Windsor Park), now on Bowker. Or is it the other way around? We need more photos!
OBA PHOT 2013-018-003, Liz Conlon collection. Horses and riders from Carley’s Victoria Riding Academy, by the Willows Fairgrounds (now Carnarvon Park area) ca. 1945. In the background is Cadboro Bay Road at Tod Road and Hamiota Street.
OBA PHOT 2015-010-082, Pattinson Collection. Oak Bay young men on a bike hike, ca 1937. L-R: Don Smith, Jack Syme, unidentified, Roy Pattinson, Ray Walls.
OBA PHOT 2015-010-90 + 92, Pattinson Collection. Joan Pattinson playing tennis in the yard of the Pattinson family home and pharmacy at 2228-2248 Oak Bay Avenue, now the location of the Penny Farthing Pub. Summer 1938.
OBA PHOT 2012-001-016 An Army ice hockey team that played out of the short-lived Olson Arena (Victoria Memorial Arena, former Horse Show building) in the Willows Fairgrounds, north of Fair St x Eastdowne during WWII (nd, 1941-44)
OBA PHOT 1994-016-033, McCrimmon Collection. Oak Bay Girls' Drill Team at Willows Exhibition Fairgrounds, 1 July 1946. Demonstration as part of the Lions Club Dominion Day Tin-Lizzy Derby at the racing oval.
OBA PHOT 2003-005-005 Gwladys Downes Collection. Oak Bay High School Girls’ Field Hockey Sevens, and friends, on playing field facing Cranmore Road in the spring of 1930. Back row L-R: Marjorie Checkley, Peggy Walton (P.W. Packard). Front row L-R: Mary Sparrowhawk, Phyllis Mackintosh, Dorothy (Dot) Hunton, Mollie Bywood and dog Biddy, Adele Bucklin, Gwladys Downes, Jane McIlmoyle, Joyce Adams.
I didn't have space to include material about the Bee St Rec Centre and other recreational facilities in Oak Bay, or the 1994 Commonwealth Games - more for another time.
Reference library books on display:
Peter Corley-Smith, Victoria Golf Club 1893-1993 : one hundred treasured years of golf
Helen Edwards, The History of Professional Hockey in Victoria BC 1911-2011
George Metcalfe, The Oak Bay Tennis Club 2011: 100th anniversary
Terry Reksten, A Century of sailing, 1892-1992 : a history of the oldest yacht club on Canada's Pacific Coast
John Schofield, Sticky Wicket: over 150 years of cricket on Vancouver Island
Questions? Please get in touch!
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- Post by Anna Sander, 19 July 2022.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2022, July). 'Sport & Recreation in Oak Bay - Municipal Hall foyer display July 2022'. [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/sport [date].
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Local schools activity - building history of Oak Bay Avenue
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Above: Oak Bay Avenue section of 1911 municipal planning map.
What was different in 1921?
There was a streetcar track along the north side of the road. The Oak Bay streetcar ran from downtown up Fort St, along Oak Bay Avenue and then down Newport to Windsor Park. It was built 1891 and ran until 1948. In the early days of the streetcar, a lot of Oak Bay was still farmland, and cows sometimes wandered onto the tracks! More here
The road was not paved, and there were no concrete sidewalks either.
There were many more single family homes with gardens on Oak Bay Avenue in 1921 than there are now. Only one is left (I think), at 2150 Oak Bay Avenue, next to Bosley’s pet supplies. There is a huge hedge in the front; more of the house is visible from Theatre Lane. The house was built by a Mr Henderson in 1910 – the same one that Henderson Road in north Oak Bay is named after. He was Reeve (Mayor) of Oak Bay 1909-11. It’s been divided into apartments but the outside looks the same. More about him: https://www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/2430
Elgin Road was called Burns St.
Granite St was called Gonzales Ave. More about street name changes here
Some of the address/house numbers have changed as occupancy became denser.
Oak Bay High School was where the Municipal Hall is now (2167). It had four classrooms.
The first municipal hall building was where Pharmasave is now. Photo:
There was a movie theatre on Oak Bay Avenue (the Avenue Theatre at 2013, not the later Oak Bay Theatre at 2188 – both buildings are still standing but have changed purposes)
You can see which people and businesses occupied properties on Oak Bay Avenue in the City Directory: https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1901/Victoria_City_Directory - in the left hand menu, choose ‘Victoria Streets’ and then ‘O’ for Oak Bay Avenue.
Detail of Oak Bay Avenue listings in 1921 Victoria directory - full page here
What is the same now as it was in 1921?
Oak Bay Avenue and many of the side streets had the names we know: Hampshire, Monterey, Oliver, Wilmot, Yale, Mitchell.
Some house numbers have changed over the years. Lot numbers as on the map above (not the same as address numbers) are attached to the land and not the buildings. These have stayed the same, so we can trace the history of different buildings on the same site as old ones are renovated, extended, demolished and replaced.
There were lots of different shops and businesses on Oak Bay Avenue as well as homes, though not as many as now. There were even apartment buildings 100 years ago.
The building at the NW corner of Oak Bay Avenue and Monterey was already built by 1921, and looked much the same as it does now. It was a grocery store for many years, and then a tearoom (café) for many more. Now it’s the Oaks Restaurant. The low building next to it has had an upper storey added.
The same brick building now at 2209 Oak Bay Avenue was already there in 1921. It was built in 1913 as apartments above stores, which is how it’s still used. Can you find its name over the door in the middle?
Businesses on Oak Bay Avenue in 1921 included: pharmacy, grocery, bakery, furniture, bank, dry goods (fabrics and clothes), hardware, post office. They are not exactly the same businesses or in the same places, but we do have the same kinds of businesses on the Avenue today. What other kinds of businesses are on Oak Bay Avenue these days?
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Principals of Oak Bay High School
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1923 - 1929 Gordon Downes (1890-1929)
1929 – 1930 Thomas Saward (Tom) Whittemore (1892-1969)
1930 - 1932 George M Billings
1932 – 1952 Dunmail Horatio Hartness (1893-1953)
1951 - 1963 Charles A Gibbard (1898-1988)
1953 Junior High School opens
1953 - 1966 Rudyard T. Kipling (1900-1984) (junior high)
1963 - 1970 Jack (John) Graham Wallace (1909-1984) (senior high)
1966 - 1973 Peter Alwin Boldt (1923-2021) (junior high)
1970 - 1975 David Voth (senior high)
1973 - 1977 Jack (John) Murray Drummond (1918-1993) (junior high)
1976 - 1980 Donald Macdonald (senior/amalgamated)
1979 Junior & Senior schools amalgamated
1980 - 1983 Keith Bickmore
1983 - 1993 Court Brousson
1993 - 2002 Doug Shaw
2002 - 2017 Dave Thomson
2017 - 2020 Randi Falls
2020 - Tom Aerts
Sources:
BC Archives, death certificate of DH Hartness online here
__________, " " " TS Whittemore online here
Brentwood College School, The Brentonian yearbook 1937, obituary of HP Hope online here
British Colonist newspaper, passim online here
City directories, passim online here
Daily Times newspaper, passim online here
Gary Wilcox, Oak Bay Encyclopedia online here
Gillian Fosdick, 'The history of Oak Bay Senior High School', 1972 online here
Oak Bay News online here
Obituary of Peter Boldt online here
UBC Totem yearbook 1929 online here
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- Post by Anna Sander, 12 July 2022
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Marbled Endpapers
Share Marbled Endpapers on Facebook Share Marbled Endpapers on Twitter Share Marbled Endpapers on Linkedin Email Marbled Endpapers linkSomething for #MarbledMonday - a selection of marbled paper covers and endpapers I'm encountering as I accession and catalogue old ledgers, historic corporate records transferred to Archives last year. More about the contents and arrangement later, but for now an unexpected array of colours and patterns from the carapaces of otherwise mostly prosaic codices:
This one looks to me like the patterns made by sunlight through water over rippled sand.
I'm surprised how very worn this inside cover is.
To see larger images, right-click on a photo and select 'open in new tab'. Then to magnify further, click on the image if a little magnifying glass appears.
Well, there's no getting around it, this one just looks like salami.
Classic red nonpareil pattern - very common but no less one of my favourites.
This looks like a moonscape - made of green cheese? The bumps are from water damage that has caused distortion in the pulp board underneath.
More of same water damage here.
Spectacular bright colours on black - like fireworks.
