Vancouver
Arbutus Ridge
1,236 addresses on 38 streets, in the 1940 city directory
Two in three of the households the 1940 directory lists in Arbutus Ridge carry the directory's mark for a family member owning the house; on the rest of the site's streets, half. Accountants were three times as common in Arbutus Ridge as on the rest of the site's streets, 36 of them in 1940. Aubrey C Sanford of 4742 Elm Street was one.
Who lived at each house is read on every street in 1940.
At work in 1940
The work the 1940 name section prints for the people it lists here, the most common first. Open one for some of the people who did it, each with their house.
Salesman138
- Sid L Johnson3629 Arbutus Street
- Dudley L Agassiz5389 Balsam Street
- Kevin J Hunter4791 Elm Street
- Ralph H Cotton5437 Larch Street
- Ernest Adamson5345 Trafalgar Street
And 133 more, each on their own house's page.
Clerk116
- G Malcolm Annable3857 Arbutus Street
- John D Lewis5364 Balsam Street
- Allan M MacPherson4767 Elm Street
- Lancelot W N Harvey5612 Mackenzie Street
- Bertram M Millner4625 Puget Drive
And 111 more, each on their own house's page.
Stenographer84
- Barbara G Selwood3791 Arbutus Street
- Mary B Cain1941 Aspen Avenue
- Audrey G Heaps5464 Balsam Street
- Sheila J Findlay4808 Elm Street
- Kathleen E L Barnes5438 Larch Street
And 79 more, each on their own house's page.
Proprietor60
- Robert G Cuthbert3391 Arbutus Street
- Ernest Wiper5502 Balsam Street
- William A Warren5575 Elm Street
- Thorvald Horshauge5602 Larch Street
- Carson J Giberson5350 Trafalgar Street
And 55 more, each on their own house's page.
Teacher55
- Frederick Lowe3429 Arbutus Street
- Elizabeth C Buckland5412 Balsam Street
- A Josephine Howard4626 Elm Street
- Dorothy M Cotton5437 Larch Street
- Cleveland G Allin4707 Trafalgar Street
And 50 more, each on their own house's page.
Manager41
- Robert Atkins3529 Arbutus Street
- Frederick D Mathers1926 Aspen Avenue
- Lionel H Collins5311 Balsam Street
- Walter A Jacklin5058 Cypress Street
- George T Watson4756 Elm Street
And 36 more, each on their own house's page.
Accountant36
- Aubrey C Sanford4742 Elm Street
- Alex Stewart5575 Larch Street
- S Watson Ralls5101 Trafalgar Street
- James H Prosser2796 West 20th Avenue
- Andrew A McLennan2745 West 30th Avenue
And 31 more, each on their own house's page.
President26
- William J Ferguson4938 Arbutus Street
- James W Heaps5464 Balsam Street
- Charles B Freeman5379 Elm Street
- Daniel King4837 Puget Drive
- G Wilbur Skelding5576 Trafalgar Street
And 21 more, each on their own house's page.
Maid25
Each of them lived in another family's household, under another surname, so they are named in that house's book, not here.
Bookkeeper23
- Louis G Cantone3725 Arbutus Street
- Ralph I Freeman5379 Elm Street
- Edward D McGregor5334 Vine Street
- Winnifred L Evans2765 West 30th Avenue
- Hubert G Donaldson2779 West 32nd Avenue
And 18 more, each on their own house's page.
Engineer21
- Alestair W Carfrae5041 Cypress Street
- Edward W Tames5614 Larch Street
- Will G Deitz5688 Mackenzie Street
- Winfield S Pipes4855 Puget Drive
- Thomas N Bugden2115 West 16th Avenue
And 16 more, each on their own house's page.
Carpenter19
- Alex F Laughton5603 Balsam Street
- Leon S Walach4778 Elm Street
- Walter J Tarr5525 Trafalgar Street
- Charles Renshaw2726 West 19th Avenue
- Edward G Logan2194 West 21st Avenue
And 14 more, each on their own house's page.
Sales managerfive times as common as on the rest of the site's streets10
- Marshall N Limon3741 Arbutus Street
- Thomas A Bate2834 West 24th Avenue
- W Kearns Glass2746 West 30th Avenue
- James N Johnston2835 West 31st Avenue
- James Cummins2736 West 32nd Avenue
And 5 more, each on their own house's page.
Manufacturers agentfour times as common as on the rest of the site's streets9
- A Walter Perkins2763 West 18th Avenue
- Percy J Atkin2816 West 29th Avenue
- A Sid Smith2795 West 30th Avenue
- Harold G Wardell2869 West 32nd Avenue
- Frank T Ross2374 West 36th Avenue
And 4 more, each on their own house's page.
Building contractorthree times as common as on the rest of the site's streets8
- William A Logan2194 West 21st Avenue
- James A MacLeod2780 West 24th Avenue
- George E Abercrombie2853 West 32nd Avenue
- Alex L Park2208 West 34th Avenue
- Archibald H Cromie2275 West 40th Avenue
And 3 more, each on their own house's page.
19 people listed here in 1940 were on active service, in the forces.
Who they worked for
- Vancouver City73
- UBC38
- BC Electric Railway34
- BC Telephone31
- CPR26
- BC Government16
- Hudson's Bay Company14
- Spencer's14
At home
844 of the 1,241 households the 1940 street section lists here carry its * (the directory's mark for a family member owning the house), against half on the rest of the site's streets. *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935).
Three in five of the people its name section lists here are householders (h); the rest live in someone else's house (r), as family, boarders or roomers. On the rest of the site's streets, half are householders.
Still standing
430 of the addresses here still have a building from before 1946; 412 were rebuilt later, and 394 are gone from the City's list. The oldest still up:
- 5603 Balsam Streetbuilt 1904
- 2160 West 37th Avenuebuilt 1910
- 2758 West 39th Avenuebuilt 1910
- 2427 West 37th Avenuebuilt 1911
- 2726 West 36th Avenuebuilt 1911
- 2351 West 37th Avenuebuilt 1912
Years built are the City's assessment records, approximate for old buildings.
In the archives
Archive photos of its streets, then three of its blocks on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, where the most still stands.




The streets
The 38 streets in Arbutus Ridge on the site, A to Z.
- Arbutus Streetthe 3200–3800 and 4900–5000 blocks: 37 addresses, 17 still standing1940
- Aspen Avenue3 addresses, three still standing1940
- Balsam Streetthe 5300–5600 blocks: 35 addresses, one still standing1940
- Cypress Streetthe 4900–5000 blocks: 8 addresses, six still standing1940
- Elm Streetthe 4500–4800 and 5300–5600 blocks: 49 addresses, 18 still standing1940
- Larch Streetthe 5000 and 5300–5600 blocks: 32 addresses, 16 still standing1940
- Linden Road6 addresses, five still standing1940
- Macdonald Streetthe 4000–4100 and 5200 blocks: 4 addresses1940
- Mackenzie Streetthe 3800, 5200 and 5600 blocks: 11 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Puget Drivethe 4300–4800 blocks: 13 addresses, three still standing1940
- Quilchena Crescent28 addresses, 21 still standing1940
- Trafalgar Streetthe 3400–3500, 3900, 4700–5100 and 5300–5600 blocks: 54 addresses, 18 still standing1940
- Vine Streetthe 5100 and 5300–5400 blocks: 18 addresses1940
- West 16th Avenuethe 2100, 2400 and 2700 blocks: 14 addresses, five still standing1940
- West 17th Avenuethe 2800 block: 3 addresses1940
- West 18th Avenuethe 2100 and 2700–2800 blocks: 14 addresses, six still standing1940
- West 19th Avenuethe 2700 and 2900 blocks: 12 addresses, four still standing1940
- West 20th Avenuethe 2700 and 2900 blocks: 4 addresses, one still standing1940
- West 21st Avenuethe 2100 and 2700–2900 blocks: 28 addresses, eight still standing1940
- West 22nd Avenuethe 2100 and 2700 blocks: 19 addresses, two still standing1940
- West 23rd Avenuethe 2100 and 2700–2900 blocks: 18 addresses, one still standing1940
- West 24th Avenuethe 2700–2900 blocks: 19 addresses, seven still standing1940
- West 28th Avenuethe 2800 block: 8 addresses, two still standing1940
- West 29th Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 25 addresses, ten still standing1940
- West 30th Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 37 addresses, 21 still standing1940
- West 31st Avenuethe 2500–2800 blocks: 41 addresses, 22 still standing1940
- West 32nd Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 29 addresses, 14 still standing1940
- West 33rd Avenuethe 1700–2800 blocks: 89 addresses, 51 still standing1940
- West 34th Avenuethe 2100–2800 blocks: 88 addresses, 30 still standing1940
- West 35th Avenuethe 2100–2800 blocks: 73 addresses, 22 still standing1940
- West 36th Avenuethe 2100–2800 blocks: 87 addresses, 24 still standing1940
- West 37th Avenuethe 2100–2800 blocks: 98 addresses, 48 still standing1940
- West 38th Avenuethe 2100 and 2700–2800 blocks: 61 addresses, 17 still standing1940
- West 39th Avenuethe 2100–2300 and 2700–2800 blocks: 50 addresses, eleven still standing1940
- West 40th Avenuethe 2100–2200 and 2500 blocks: 26 addresses1940
- West 41st Avenuethe 2200–2500 blocks: 59 addresses, six still standing1940
- West King Edward Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 10 addresses, three still standing1940
- Yew Streetthe 5300–5600 blocks: 26 addresses1940