A family name on Melville Street, Downtown
The Roses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Rose at one address, 1033 Melville Street in Downtown, in 1940, with the close spelling Rosse. The directories print the name on 61 other streets too, all listed on the Rose name's own page.
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The Roses at home
- 1
1033 Melville Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs M Rosse, widow of G R 1940
- Henry J Rosse, a salesman at Columbia Paper 1940
- Yvonne Rosse, a hairdresser for Maison Henri 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs E A McElderry at 1029 and J G Hale at 1039. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a hairdresser and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 M Rosse, rooms to let, at 1033 Melville 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Marie Rosse there, widow of G R, with Henry J Rosse, a salesman at Columbia Paper, and Yvonne Rosse, a hairdresser for Maison Henri.
Today
The City no longer lists 1033 Melville, 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.
- *Rosse Mrs M rooms1033 Melville, p. 115
- Rosse Henry J slsmn Columbia Paper1033 Melville, p. 534
- Rosse Marie wid G R rooms1033 Melville, p. 534
- Rosse Yvonne hairdrsr Maison Henri1033 Melville, p. 534
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Roses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Rose 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.