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

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named McDonald at two addresses in 1940, all on Charles Street, with the close spellings MacDonald and Macdonald. 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 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

    1947 Charles Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • William MacDonald, a mechanic at Westminster Breweries 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Ohora at 1943 and Mrs D J Bryant at 1953. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2993 Charles Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A Macdonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Q Burton at 2987. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 William MacDonald at 1947 Charles Street, a mechanic at Westminster Breweries. A Macdonald is listed at 2993 Charles Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alex McDonald there as the householder.

Today

1947 Charles and 2993 Charles still have their buildings from before 1946.

Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street
About 1910 Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street. Not at the house at 2993 Charles: no archive photo of the 2900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 354-335. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 McDonalds

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McDonald 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.