ARCHITECTURE:
This is a 1½-storey, shallow-pitched, side-gable- roofed Craftsman Bungalow with shed-roofed dormers front and back. It has the typical wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and bargeboards, and brick chimneys. In the 1940s or ’50s, the original wood shingle wall cladding was covered in stucco. Original windows including several with stained glass survive. Kimberley and Richard Linzey, provincial heritage planner, designated the property in 2007 and rehablitated the exterior. In 2013 the owners and their builder, Pat Megson, won a Hallmark Heritage Award for the rehabilitation.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
Harry MacDonald Ozard (1882-1944) was a carpenter, pattern maker and farmer, and likely built this house, in which he lived with his brother, Walter John (1879-1936), and their sister Marguerite Jane (1876-1954). Their parents, Elizabeth Thomasina (Simons, 1850-1918) and William Nicholas Ozard (c.1849-1909) came to Canada from Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, in the early 1870s and settled in Chatham, ON, where their four sons and one daughter were born. The family moved to Winnipeg c.1891, then by 1908 settled in Gordon Head, Saanich. Elizabeth was living on Carroll St when she died. Harry and Walter lived here until about 1920 when they returned to Gordon Head with Marguerite and Harry continued to manage the farm.
Eldest son William Henry Ozard (1875-1935) married Rhoda Rose Emma Gatchell-Walker (1879-1965) in Winnipeg in 1903. In Victoria they settled at 3066 Albany, right behind Carroll, on the west side of the street. William was a printer at Victoria Daily Times for a number of years. Youngest son George Couzens Ozard (1888-1948) married Hazel Maud Mills Petherick (1889-1921), in 1913. Hazel was the daughter of Emma Fry, who married John Cowper Newbury of 140 Government St (James Bay) and Colquitz Av, Saanich, in 1909 after divorcing her first husband, William. George, a Canada Customs officer, remarried after Hazel died and lived at 1002 Caledonia Av for many years. Walter, a typesetter, apprenticed with the Winnipeg Tribune, then worked at the Victoria Daily Colonist for some years. By 1918 he was with the Daily Times, until failing health forced him to retire in 1934.
Marguerite was a teacher with the Saanich School Board for years. Educated in Winnipeg, she taught school there before coming to BC. After teaching at Strawberry Vale School, she became principal of Craigflower School by 1920, where she remained until retirement in 1932. Marguerite divided her time between teaching, working on the family farm, and helping her brother George raise his sons. Marguerite was still operating part of the original farm on Tyndall Av when she died.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
By 1924, Harold B. Crowe, superintendent of the Victoria Bed and Mattress Co, was the occupant of 3040 Carroll. Walter Riddle (1889-1958) of Riddle Bros Florists moved in by 1926 and lived here until c.1930. Walter was born in Winnipeg, and came to Victoria in 1907. He married his first wife, Kathleen Julia Norris, in 1914, but divorced her in 1920. In 1924 he married dressmaker Annie Hilda Purdey (1893-1972) who was born in Moosomin, SK, and came to Victoria in 1902.
Ernest and Eva Tuson lived here in the early-1930s. Ernest was president of the Home Bungalow Auto Camp. Retirees Frederick and Agnes Jones lived here in 1937. By 1941, Arthur Christopher (1904-1985) and Mary C. King were living here. Arthur was a construction worker serving overseas. They lived here until the late-1940s.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & IMAGES:
• Statement of Significance (Canadian Register of Historic Places)
• Map of Victoria’s Heritage Register Properties
• This Old House, Victoria’s Heritage Neighbourhoods,
Volume Three: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green,
Hillside-Quadra, North Park & Oaklands