A family name on Spencer Street, Renfrew-Collingwood
The Rosses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Ross at one address, 4961 Spencer Street in Renfrew-Collingwood, 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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The Rosses at home
Collingwood
- 1
4961 Spencer Street
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- G A Ross, retired 1940
- Earl Ross, a washer at the West Coast Woollen Mills 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M A Spence at 4955 and J H Pringle at 4981. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a washer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 G A Ross at 4961 Spencer Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George A Ross there as the householder, retired, with Earl Ross, a washer at the West Coast Woollen Mills.
Today
4961 Spencer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Ross G A4961 Spencer, p. 153
- Ross Earl washer West Coast Woollen Mills4961 Spencer, p. 532
- Ross Geo A retired4961 Spencer, p. 532
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Rosses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Ross 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.