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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Ridgewells

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Ridgewell 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 Ridgewells lived

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).
  1. 1

    1116 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Sid C Ridgwell, a laborer at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Worsfold at 1110 and Mrs C Granger at 1122. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    413 Robson Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • George Ridgewell 1940

    Next door in 1940: W B Grant at 407 and J L Cameron at 417. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1686 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • R F Ridgewell, a cutter for Gordon Campbell 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Thompson at 1684 and J Barzman at 1696. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a cutter and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Fairview and West End. 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 Sid C Ridgwell at 1116 Bute Street, a laborer at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists George Ridgewell at 413 Robson Street. In 1940 the directory lists R F Ridgewell at 1686 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Richard F Ridgewell there as the householder, a cutter for Gordon Campbell.

Today

1116 Bute (2004) and 1686 West 12th (1968) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 413 Robson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Ridgewells

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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.