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A family name on Angus Drive, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy and Marpole

The Ramsays

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Ramsay at one address, 7450 Angus Drive in Kerrisdale, in 1940. The directories print the name on 44 other streets too, all listed on the Ramsay name's own page.

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The Ramsays at home

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
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    7450 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Mrs M W Ramsay, widow of J 1940
    • Eleanor A Ramsay, a saleswoman for W M Gow 1940
    • Ken G Ramsay, a helper at Simmons 1940
    • Louise W Ramsay 1940

    Next door in 1940: H G Hamer at 7430 and R H Daft at 7470. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a helper and a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kerrisdale. 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

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M W Ramsay at 7450 Angus Drive; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists M Winifred Ramsay there as the householder, widow of J, with Eleanor A Ramsay, a saleswoman for W M Gow, Ken G Ramsay, a helper at Simmons, and Louise W Ramsay.

Today

7450 Angus Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1932 by the City's record.

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 7450 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 7400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

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, street section

The book of the Ramsays

Every directory, as one book

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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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.