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A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · ten people at eight addresses

The directories print ten people named McDonald at eight addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue, 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

    24 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Jane McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Anderson at 20 and Mrs S E McDonald at 26. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    26 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs S E McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: H MacDermott at 24 and Mrs S A Horton at 28. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    28 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • I D MacDonald, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs S E McDonald at 26 and F V Miller at 30. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    36 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs K McDonald, widow of C A 1940
    • John A McDonald, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L G Condon at 32. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    419 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W Norman McDonald, an attendant at Oke & Duke 1940

    Next door in 1940: H L Sacret at 415 and J A Shoesmith at 423. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    470 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs M McDonald, widow of J R 1940
    • Charles D McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: J E Wright at 466 and Miss M K Polley at 478. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    1774 East 10th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W MacDonald, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Molyneux at 1764. The block, door by door

  8. 8

    2261 East 10th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • F R McDonald, a salesman at Associated Dairies 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Ironsides at 2249 and Mrs E Croll at 2273. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the ten: an attendant, a conductor, a fisherman and a salesman. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (6) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 Mrs Jane McDonald at 24 East 10th Avenue. Mrs S E McDonald is listed at 26 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Sarah E McDonald there as the householder.

I D MacDonald is listed at 28 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ira D MacDonald there as the householder, a fisherman. Mrs K McDonald is listed at 36 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Kath McDonald there as the householder, widow of C A, with John A McDonald, a student.

The 1940 name section lists W Norman McDonald at 419 East 10th Avenue, an attendant at Oke & Duke. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M McDonald at 470 East 10th Avenue; 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 Mary Macdonald there as the householder, widow of J R, with Charles D McDonald.

In 1940 the directory lists W MacDonald at 1774 East 10th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William MacDonald there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists F R McDonald at 2261 East 10th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Fred R McDonald there as the householder, a salesman at Associated Dairies.

Today

24 East 10th and 470 East 10th still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 26 East 10th, 28 East 10th, 36 East 10th, 419 East 10th, 1774 East 10th and 2261 East 10th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 16 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

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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.