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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The McCloys

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named McCloy at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the McCloys 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

    6076 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Frederick C McCloy, a salesman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Diamond at 6036 and H D Arnold at 6086. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2125 Commercial Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • T H McCloy 1940

    Next door in 1940: Shoppe Elizabeth at 2115 and P J Wiggs at 2131. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5587 Holland Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W M McCloy, of W M McCloy & Co 1940
    • Ian H McCloy, of W M McCloy 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Cranswick at 5561. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Grandview-Woodland and Kerrisdale. 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 Frederick C McCloy at 6076 Angus Drive, a salesman at Woodward's. T H McCloy is listed at 2125 Commercial Drive in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists W M McCloy at 5587 Holland Street; 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 M McCloy there as the householder, of W M McCloy & Co, with Ian H McCloy, of W M McCloy.

Today

5587 Holland still has its building from before 1946, dated 1937 by the City's record; 6076 Angus Drive (2015) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2125 Commercial Drive, so that building is 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 McCloys

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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.