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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Ascrofts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Ascroft at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Ascrofts lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1235 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • William Ascroft 1940

    Next door in 1940: Skinner-Atkins at 1233 and W R Hay at 1243. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3635 Pandora Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • H H Ascroft, an engineer at Union Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Weston at 3623 and G Cosco at 3645. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1875 Vanness Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Ascroft, a mechanic for F G Cheeseman 1940

    Next door in 1940: W G Millington at 1863. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an engineer and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Hastings-Sunrise and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.

The story, address by address

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Ascroft at 1235 Hornby Street. H H Ascroft is listed at 3635 Pandora Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists Henry H Ascroft there as the householder, an engineer at Union Oil.

A Ascroft is listed at 1875 Vanness Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Albert Ascroft there as the householder, a mechanic for F G Cheeseman.

Today

3635 Pandora (1957) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1235 Hornby and 1875 Vanness, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Ascrofts

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under A. Want a name removed? Tell us.