A family name on West 9th Avenue, West Point Grey
The Macfarlanes
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Macfarlane at one address, 4474 West 9th Avenue in West Point Grey, in 1940, with the close spellings McFarlane, MacFarlane and MacFarlan. The directories print the name on 66 other streets too, all listed on the Macfarlane name's own page.
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The Macfarlanes at home
Point Grey
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4474 West 9th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- W M Macfarlane, a clerk at the BC Government 1940
- A Muriel Macfarlane, an elevator operator at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
- John Macfarlane, a clerk at Columbia Paper 1940
Next door in 1940: A S Neilson at 4448 and J Riach at 4480. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk (2) and an elevator operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West Point Grey. 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 Macfarlane at 4474 West 9th 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 Walter M Macfarlane there as the householder, a clerk at the BC Government, with A Muriel Macfarlane, an elevator operator at the Hudson's Bay Company, and John Macfarlane, a clerk at Columbia Paper.
Today
The City no longer lists 4474 West 9th, 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.
- *Macfarlane W M4474 West 9th, p. 197
- Macfarlane A Muriel elev opr HBC4474 West 9th, p. 375
- Macfarlane John clk Columbia Paper4474 West 9th, p. 375
- Macfarlane Walter M clk BC Govt4474 West 9th, p. 376
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.