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A family name on East 3rd Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Rosses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Ross at two addresses in 1940, all on East 3rd Avenue. 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: four Rosses at 1745 East 3rd in 1940. The directories print the name on 151 other streets too, all listed on the Ross name's own page.

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Where the Rosses 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

    1638 East 3rd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A G Ross, who worked for Vancouver Breweries 1940
    • Walter F Ross 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Y Belin at 1630 and F J Davitte at 1642. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1745 East 3rd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J Ross, retired 1940
    • Bessie V Ross, a stenographer at the BC Financial Times 1940
    • Clair Ross, a fitter at Dominion Bridge 1940
    • Mary Ross, a saleswoman at Canadian Wind Bakeries 1940

    Next door in 1940: C R Stong at 1735 and J W Elmer at 1751. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: an employee, a fitter, a saleswoman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 A G Ross at 1638 East 3rd 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 Arthur G Ross there as the householder, who worked for Vancouver Breweries, with Walter F Ross. In 1940 the directory lists J Ross at 1745 East 3rd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists James Ross there as the householder, retired, with Bessie V Ross, a stenographer at the BC Financial Times, Clair Ross, a fitter at Dominion Bridge, and Mary Ross, a saleswoman at Canadian Wind Bakeries.

Today

1745 East 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1638 East 3rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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

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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.