A family name on Dunsmuir Street, Downtown
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 Dunsmuir 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
- 1
709 Dunsmuir Street
Downtown, 1940
- Isabella Macdonald, proprietor of the Vancouver Bus School 1940
Next door in 1940: Cosmetics Godissarts at 705 and Miss M K Brown at 711. The block, door by door
- 2
1013 Dunsmuir Street
Downtown, 1940
- Irene I McDonald, a cashier at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: W J M McKay at 1017. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a cashier and a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (2). 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 Isabella Macdonald at 709 Dunsmuir Street, proprietor of the Vancouver Bus School. The 1940 name section lists Irene I McDonald at 1013 Dunsmuir Street, a cashier at Spencer's.
Today
The City no longer lists 709 Dunsmuir and 1013 Dunsmuir, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Macdonald Isabella prop Van Bus Sch709 Dunsmuir, p. 371
- McDonald Irene I cash Spencers1013 Dunsmuir, p. 371
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.