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A family name on West 40th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Rosses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Ross at three addresses in 1940, all on West 40th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. 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

    1632 West 40th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Elizabeth S Ross 1940
    • Margaret S Ross 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs B V O'Neil at 1620 and R T S Phipps at 1644. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1775 West 40th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Kay Ross, a maid for H F G Letson 1940

    Next door in 1940: H H Wallace at 1757 and J C Adam at 1791. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2226 West 40th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • W L Ross, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: chamberlain apts at 2210 and Miss C E Munro at 2236. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a laborer and a maid.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (2) and Arbutus Ridge. 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 Elizabeth S Ross at 1632 West 40th Avenue, with Margaret S Ross. The 1940 name section lists Kay Ross at 1775 West 40th Avenue, a maid for H F G Letson. In 1940 the directory lists W L Ross at 2226 West 40th 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 L Ross there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver.

Today

1775 West 40th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1632 West 40th and 2226 West 40th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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.