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A family name on West 21st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Rosses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Ross at three addresses in 1940, all on West 21st Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Rosses at 174 West 21st 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

    174 West 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • R Ross 1940
    • Don M Ross, a student 1940
    • James Ross, an assistant for H Fertch 1940
    • Janet R Ross, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: S A McDonell at 166 and J F Boguski at 184. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    286 West 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W Ross, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M M Green at 276 and J L Sansum at 296. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    590 West 21st Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • W Laurence Ross, a helper at Arbutus S & D 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Baker at 584 and N K Kennedy at 592. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: an assistant, a fisherman and a helper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2) and South Cambie. 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 R Ross at 174 West 21st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robertson Ross there as the householder, with Don M Ross, a student, James Ross, an assistant for H Fertch, and Janet R Ross, a student. In 1940 the directory lists W Ross at 286 West 21st 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 lists William Ross there as the householder, a fisherman.

The 1940 name section lists W Laurence Ross at 590 West 21st Avenue, a helper at Arbutus S & D.

Today

174 West 21st and 590 West 21st still have their buildings from before 1946; 286 West 21st (1995) 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

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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.