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A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

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 East 11th 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    185 East 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • L MacDonald, a caretaker 1940
    • Marie B Macdonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M M Hodgson at 153. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    923 East 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • A MacDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A E Towler at 917 and F L Screech at 929. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1443 East 11th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • N Macdonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Galloway at 1437 and R J Thomas at 1449. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2137 East 11th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R W McDonald, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W White at 2161. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a caretaker and a longshoreman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2) and Mount Pleasant (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

In 1940 the directory lists L MacDonald at 185 East 11th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lewis MacDonald there as the householder, a caretaker, with Marie B Macdonald. In 1940 the directory lists A MacDonald at 923 East 11th 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 Alex McDonald there as the householder.

In 1940 the directory lists N Macdonald at 1443 East 11th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. R W McDonald is listed at 2137 East 11th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ray W McDonald there, a longshoreman.

Today

923 East 11th and 1443 East 11th still have their buildings from before 1946; 185 East 11th (1950) and 2137 East 11th (2013) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 8 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.