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A family name on Cambridge Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named McDonald at four addresses in 1940, all on Cambridge Street, with the close spellings MacDonald and Macdonald. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 231 other streets too, all listed on the McDonald name's own page.

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Where the McDonalds 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

    2446 Cambridge Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A MacDonald, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Montgomery at 2440 and R W Burgess at 2450. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2447 Cambridge Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A MacDonald, a rigger at Empire 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Morrison at 2423 and W Lister at 2455. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2647 Cambridge Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • J R MacDonald, a salesman at Jeffree & Jeffree 1940

    Next door in 1940: J R Whitehorn at 2641 and R P Whyte at 2655. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2648 Cambridge Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • D MacDonald 1940
    • William MacDonald, a delivery at Superior Stores 1940

    Next door in 1940: W MacKay at 2636 and J H Anderson at 2660. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a carpenter, a delivery, a rigger and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (4). 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 A MacDonald at 2446 Cambridge 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Allan MacDonald there as the householder, a carpenter. In 1940 the directory lists A MacDonald at 2447 Cambridge Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Angus MacDonald there, a rigger at Empire.

In 1940 the directory lists J R MacDonald at 2647 Cambridge Street. The 1940 name section lists James R McDonald there as the householder, a salesman at Jeffree & Jeffree. In 1940 the directory lists D MacDonald at 2648 Cambridge Street. The 1940 name section lists Don MacDonald there as the householder, with William MacDonald, a delivery at Superior Stores.

Today

2447 Cambridge, 2647 Cambridge and 2648 Cambridge still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2446 Cambridge, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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.