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The Roedde House Museum
The Roedde Family
 Gustav
Roedde was born in 1860 in Grossbodungen, Germany, and trained as a
bookbinder in Leipzig.
He emigrated to the United States in 1881, and
settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met and
married Mathilda Marie Cassebohm, who was from the island of Helgoland, Germany.
The couple moved to San Francisco, California, then Victoria, British
Columbia and finally to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Gustav opened,
in 1886, the city's first book bindery. In the following decades Vancouvergrew and
flourished; so too did Mr. Roedde'sbusiness, and by 1893 Mr. Roedde
could afford to have a new house built for his family at 1415 Barclay Street.
Eventually the family grew to
include six children (one adopted) and three St. Bernard dogs. Although
Gustav, his wife and his children are no longer living, their grandchildren
and great-grandchildren are thriving, some of them still in the Vancouverarea. The
Roedde descendants maintain an active interest in the house, and often
participate in public events.
The binding and printing company that Mr. Roedde founded over a hundred years
ago continues to operate as G.A. Roedde Printers, and provides custom print
jobs to establishments throughout the lower mainland, including historic
Roedde House itself.
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