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A family name on East 21st Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named McDonald at three addresses in 1940, all on East 21st 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 most under one roof: four McDonalds at 464 East 21st 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    18 East 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • J A Macdonald, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Flora E Macdonald, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Finlayson at 8 and P O Gourlay at 28. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    464 East 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • G A Macdonald, a school teacher 1940
    • Alan S McDonald, a student at UBC 1940
    • Gordon E Macdonald, a student 1940
    • Margaret J Macdonald, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: E J Annesley at 460 and W Noshkin at 468. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2805 East 21st Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • W MacDonald, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Greenhill at 2811. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: a school teacher (2), a fisherman and a motorman. Two of them worked for Vancouver City.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2) and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 J A Macdonald at 18 East 21st 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, where each person's work is printed, lists John A Macdonald there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with Flora E Macdonald, a student. In 1940 the directory lists G A Macdonald at 464 East 21st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Gordon A Macdonald there as the householder, a school teacher, with Alan S McDonald, a student at UBC, Gordon E Macdonald, a student, and Margaret J Macdonald, a school teacher.

In 1940 the directory lists W MacDonald at 2805 East 21st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William MacDonald there as the householder, a fisherman.

Today

18 East 21st and 464 East 21st still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2805 East 21st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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.