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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The McConnans

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named McConnan 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. The most under one roof: three McConnans at 3436 West 1st in 1940.

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Where the McConnans 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

    423 Hamilton Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • H McConnan, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Acme Loan Co at 427. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6187 McCleery Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • C C McConnan, a clerk at London & Lancashire Insurance 1940

    Next door in 1940: H G Forrester at 6161. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3436 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H McConnan, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • Gwenyth McConnan, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
    • Nina M McConnan, a stenographer at Northwest Mortgage 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Urry at 3422. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a manufacturers agent, a saleswoman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kerrisdale and Kitsilano. 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 H McConnan, a manufacturers agent, at 423 Hamilton Street. C C McConnan is listed at 6187 McCleery Street in 1940; 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 Charles C McConnan there as the householder, a clerk at London & Lancashire Insurance.

H McConnan is listed at 3436 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harold McConnan there as the householder, a manufacturers agent, with Gwenyth McConnan, a saleswoman at Woodward's, and Nina M McConnan, a stenographer at Northwest Mortgage.

Today

6187 McCleery (2011) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 423 Hamilton and 3436 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.