A family name on West Broadway, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Rosses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Ross at one address, 1734 West Broadway in Fairview, 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
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1734 West Broadway
Fairview, 1940
- W M Ross, an excavating contractor 1940
- Clinton A Ross 1940
- John M Ross, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940
Next door in 1940: J H Hastie at 1724 and D Evans at 1744. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and an excavating contractor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Fairview. 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 W M Ross, an excavating contractor, at 1734 West Broadway; 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 William M Ross there, an excavating contractor, with Clinton A Ross, and John M Ross, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Today
The City no longer lists 1734 West Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Ross W M excavating contr1734 West Broadway, p. 18
- Ross Clinton A1734 West Broadway, p. 532
- Ross John M clk CB of C1734 West Broadway, p. 533
- Ross Wm M excavating contr1734 West Broadway, p. 534
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.