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A family name on West 35th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

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 West 35th 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: three Rosses at 2574 West 35th 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

    2574 West 35th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Don Ross 1940
    • Ivan S Ross, an attendant for R N Lovegrove 1940
    • Lydia H Ross, a widow 1940

    Next door in 1940: E H Smeeth at 2550. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3558 West 35th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W Le B Ross 1940
    • W LeBreton Ross, retired 1940
    • Phyllis Ross 1940

    Next door in 1940: A G Lyon at 3550 and Miss M McClung at 3566. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the six: an attendant. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don Ross at 2574 West 35th Avenue, with Ivan S Ross, an attendant for R N Lovegrove, and Lydia H Ross, a widow. W Le B Ross is listed at 3558 West 35th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists W LeBreton Ross there as the householder, retired, with Phyllis Ross.

Today

3558 West 35th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record; 2574 West 35th (2010) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Rosses

Every directory, as one book

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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.