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A family name on West 36th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy 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 36th 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: three Rosses at 2374 West 36th 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2374 West 36th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • F T Ross, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • F J Bernard Ross, a student 1940
    • Mary E Ross, widow of J 1940

    Next door in 1940: R E Denison at 2350 and C Highet at 2398. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2606 West 36th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • J Ross, a barrister and notary 1940
    • F Mary Ross, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J Cleat at 2626. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3058 West 36th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J B Ross, a salesman at C C Cross & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: C E Moody at 3042 and C B Romer at 3076. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a barrister and notary, a manufacturers agent, a nurse and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge (2) 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

In 1940 the directory lists F T Ross at 2374 West 36th 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 Frank T Ross there as the householder, a manufacturers agent, with F J Bernard Ross, a student, and Mary E Ross, widow of J. In 1940 the directory lists J Ross at 2606 West 36th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Jonathan Ross there as the householder, a barrister and notary, with F Mary Ross, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital.

In 1940 the directory lists J B Ross at 3058 West 36th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists John B Ross there as the householder, a salesman at C C Cross & Co.

Today

2374 West 36th and 3058 West 36th still have their buildings from before 1946, 3058 West 36th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2606 West 36th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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.