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A family name on Pandora Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland

The Ritchies

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Ritchie at two addresses in 1940, all on Pandora Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Ritchies at 2043 Pandora in 1940. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Ritchie name's own page.

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Where the Ritchies 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

    2043 Pandora Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J A G Ritchie, a laborer 1940
    • Arthur J Ritchie, a coremaker at W McPhail & Sons 1940
    • Ralph G Ritchie, a plumber for D McGeachy 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Slater at 2039 and W J Wager at 2047. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2735 Pandora Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • D Ritchie, a clerk at BC Sugar 1940
    • Sheila R J Ritchie, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: M J O'Brien at 2725. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a coremaker, a laborer and a plumber.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 G Ritchie at 2043 Pandora Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John A G Ritchie there as the householder, a laborer, with Arthur J Ritchie, a coremaker at W McPhail & Sons, and Ralph G Ritchie, a plumber for D McGeachy. In 1940 the directory lists D Ritchie at 2735 Pandora Street; 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 lists David Ritchie there as the householder, retired, with David Ritchie Jr, a clerk at BC Sugar, and Sheila R J Ritchie, a student at UBC.

Today

2043 Pandora still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; 2735 Pandora (1992) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Ritchies

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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.