A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Ransons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Ranson at one address, 2526 West 15th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Ransons at home
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2526 West 15th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- J A Ranson, retired 1940
- Greeta J Ranson, a stenographer at Dr Ballard's Animal Food Products 1940
Next door in 1940: A J Bates at 2516 and H T Morse at 2556. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 A Ranson at 2526 West 15th 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 A Ranson there as the householder, retired, with Greeta J Ranson, a stenographer at Dr Ballard's Animal Food Products.
Today
The City no longer lists 2526 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Ranson J A2526 West 15th, p. 220
- Ranson Greeta J sten Dr Ballard's Animal Food Prods2526 West 15th, p. 511
- Ranson John A retired2526 West 15th, p. 511
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Ransons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Ranson 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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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.