A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge
The Ramsays
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Ramsay at one address, 3842 West 23rd Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, 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
Southlands
- 1
3842 West 23rd Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- J Ramsay, retired 1940
- Amelia Ramsay, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: J H Evans at 3836 and Dr G Burke at 3852. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 J Ramsay at 3842 West 23rd Avenue; 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 John Ramsay there as the householder, retired, with Amelia Ramsay, an operator at the BC Telephone.
Today
3842 West 23rd (1962) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Ramsay J3842 West 23rd, p. 238
- Ramsay Amelia opr BC Tel3842 West 23rd, p. 510
- Ramsay John retired3842 West 23rd, p. 510
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Ramsays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Ramsay name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.