A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Ridgways
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Ridgway at one address, 1410 East 12th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.
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The Ridgways at home
- 1
1410 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Mrs G B Ridgway, widow of W F 1940
- Margaret A E Ridgway, a clerk at the Bank of Nova Scotia 1940
- Walter S Ridgway 1940
Next door in 1940: A P Dick at 1402 and F H Jones at 1456. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a clerk. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists Mrs G B Ridgway at 1410 East 12th 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 Georgia B Ridgway there as the householder, widow of W F, with Margaret A E Ridgway, a clerk at the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Walter S Ridgway.
Today
1410 East 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Ridgway Mrs G B1410 East 12th, p. 206
- Ridgway Georgia B wid W F clk CB of C1410 East 12th, p. 520
- Ridgway Margt A E clk Bk of NS1410 East 12th, p. 520
- Ridgway Walter S1410 East 12th, p. 520
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Ridgways
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Ridgway 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.