A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Macfarlanes
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Macfarlane at two addresses in 1940, all on West 12th Avenue, with the close spellings McFarlane, MacFarlane and MacFarlan. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 66 other streets too, all listed on the Macfarlane name's own page.
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Where the Macfarlanes lived
- 1
236 West 12th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- D McFarlane, an electrician at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss M McCuaig at 224. The block, door by door
- 2
1506 West 12th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Cath McFarlane, widow of W 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs C L Miller at 1510. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an electrician. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Fairview and Mount Pleasant. 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 D McFarlane at 236 West 12th Avenue, an electrician at the Burrard Dry Dock. The 1940 name section lists Cath McFarlane at 1506 West 12th Avenue, widow of W.
Today
236 West 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1506 West 12th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McFarlane D electn Burrard Dry Dock236 West 12th, p. 375
- McFarlane Cath wid W1506 West 12th, p. 375
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Macfarlanes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Macfarlane 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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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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.