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A family name on East 4th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named McDonald at three addresses in 1940, all on East 4th 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

    1623 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W MacDonald, a bridge operator at the National Harbours Board 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H E Waters at 1613 and M Poproski at 1627. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2046 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • M MacDonald 1940
    • Ian MacDonald, a musician 1940

    Next door in 1940: C C V Webb at 2024. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2051 East 4th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: C D McMahon at 2047 and Mrs A Roberts at 2061. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a bridge operator and a musician.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (3). 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 MacDonald at 1623 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William MacDonald there as the householder, a bridge operator at the National Harbours Board. In 1940 the directory lists M MacDonald at 2046 East 4th 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 Ian MacDonald there, a musician.

In 1940 the directory lists J McDonald at 2051 East 4th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too.

Today

1623 East 4th and 2046 East 4th still have their buildings from before 1946; for 2051 East 4th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 5 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.