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A family name on East 14th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named McDonald at two addresses in 1940, all on East 14th Avenue, 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 most under one roof: three McDonalds at 1810 East 14th in 1940. 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

    357 East 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W I McDonald, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: A C Smith at 351 and J W Wardrop at 359. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1810 East 14th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W McDonald 1940
    • Edna C McDonald, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Isabella M McDonald, an operator at Canadian-Bemis Bag 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Wigman at 1804 and G F Ringham at 1822. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an operator (2) and a motorman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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 W I McDonald at 357 East 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William I McDonald there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists W McDonald at 1810 East 14th 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 William McDonald there as the householder, with Edna C McDonald, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Isabella M McDonald, an operator at Canadian-Bemis Bag.

Today

1810 East 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 357 East 14th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the McDonalds

Every directory, as one book

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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.