ARCHITECTURE:
This 1½-storey, side-gabled Craftsman Bungalow has large shed-roofed dormers front and rear, and typical wide eaves with exposed rafter tails. It has an inset corner front porch to the right and side-facing steps with a solid stepped balustrade. The house, which was stuccoed in the 1940s-50s, has been restored to original shingle siding. It has two corbelled brick chimneys. Owners Richard Linzey, provincial heritage planner, and his wife Kimberley, designated the property and rehabilitated the exterior. They won a Hallmark Heritage Society Award in 2013.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1912-21: Builder, carpenter, pattern maker and farmer/fruit grower Harry MacDonald Ozard (1882-1944)ived here with siblings Walter John (1879-1936) and Marguerite Jane (1876-1954); she took out the building permit in 1912 for this $2,500 house. Parents Elizabeth Thomasina (née Simons, 1850-1918) and William Nicholas Ozard (c.1849-1909) came to Chatham, ON from Alderney, Channel Is, UK in 1873. They moved to Winnipeg c.1891 and by 1908 settled at 4456 Tyndall Av, Gordon Head, Saanich (Registered Heritage). Elizabeth was living here when she died. Harry and Walter lived here until 1921, then returned with Marguerite to Tyndall where Harry managed the farm. Walter, a typesetter, apprenticed with Winnipeg Tribune. He worked at Daily Colonist and Victoria Daily Times, until failing health forced retirement in 1934. Marguerite Ozard, a teacher with Saanich School Board for many years, was educated in Winnipeg where she taught before coming here. After teaching at Strawberry Vale School, she was principal of Craigflower School from 1920-32. She divided her time between teaching, working on the farm, and helping youngest brother George raise his sons. She still operated part of the original Tyndall Av farm at her death.
Their eldest brother William Henry Ozard (1875-1935) married Rhoda Rose Emma (née Gatchell-Walker 1879-1965) in Winnipeg in 1903. They settled at 3066 Albany St, behind 3040 Carroll. He was a printer at Victoria Daily Times for a number of years. Youngest brother, insurance agent George Couzens Ozard (1888-1948) married in 1913 Hazel Maud Mills (née Petherick 1889-1921), the daughter of William Petherick and Emma Frye. Emma divorced and in 1909 married John Cowper Newbury (140 Government St, James Bay, / Colquitz Av, Saanich), Collector of Customs for Victoria. John immediately offered George a job as Customs Clerk, a job he retained until his death.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
Tenants: 1923-24: Victoria Bed & Mattress Co superintendent Harold Bernard Crowe (b. Truro, NS 1889-1977) married second wife Annie Newess (née Armstrong, b. Durham, ENG 1894-1945) in 1922 after Laura Rose (née Stewart, b. New Westminster, BC 1886-1918) died in the influenza epidemic.
1925-30: Nurseryman Walter Riddle (b. Winnipeg 1889-1958), divorced, married dressmaker Annie Hilda (née Purdey b. Moosomin, SK 1893-1972) here in 1924. He joined the CEF in 1916 and served in France with the CAMC, 13th Field Ambulance Unit. He and his brothers established Riddle Bros on Douglas St, with the biggest wood-frame hothouse (designed by George Riddle) in Canada.
1931-32: Jones Building elevator operator Charles William Shubrook (b. Blackfriars, London, ENG 1893-1951) and Daisy May (née Playford, b. ENG 1896-1974). 1933-40: BCCSS Chief Biller William Henry White (b. Oxford, ENG 1902-?) married Janet May (née Tully, b. Kent ENG 1902-?) here in 1927.
1941-46: Construction worker Arthur Christopher King (b. Victoria 1904-1985) married Christine Mary (née Lennax, b. Victoria 1912-1993) here in 1937; Arthur was on active service during WWII.
Owners: 1947-48: William and Rhoda Ozard’s son, teacher William Charles “Charlie” Ozard (b. Winnipeg 1906-1969) married Evelyn Royal Georgina (née Bonavia, b. Bristol, ENG 1910-1993) here in 1933. He spent most of his career at Esquimalt High School.
1950-51: Mrs. Marion Gillan, alterations, Mary Constance Dress Shop.
1952-55: Retirees Harry and Hilda Johnson.