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A family name on East Georgia Street, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at four addresses

The directories print nine people named McDonald at four addresses in 1940, all on East Georgia Street, 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 2828 East Georgia 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

    431 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • John McDonald, a miner 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Bandura at 429 and Far Kay Noodle Fcty at 433. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    568 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Rev E O MacDonald, a priest at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Chinese Mission 1940

    Next door in 1940: Tom Jung at 562 and St Francis Xavier Chinese Catholic Mission at 572. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2815 East Georgia Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • D MacDonald, a lineman at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Allan MacDonald, retired 1940
    • Mary Macdonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: W T Bartie at 2821. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2828 East Georgia Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Mrs S McDonald, widow of D A 1940
    • Amelia McDonald, a cook 1940
    • Jean McDonald, a stenographer 1940
    • Mary Macdonald, a waitress 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Armstrong at 2822 and A E Halsall at 2834. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the nine: a cook, a lineman, a miner, a priest, a stenographer and a waitress. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (2) and Strathcona (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 John McDonald at 431 East Georgia Street, a miner. The 1940 name section lists Rev E O MacDonald at 568 East Georgia Street, a priest at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Chinese Mission. In 1940 the directory lists D MacDonald at 2815 East Georgia Street; 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 Duncan MacDonald there as the householder, a lineman at the City of Vancouver, with Allan MacDonald, retired, and Mary Macdonald.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs S McDonald at 2828 East Georgia Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Sarah McDonald there as the householder, widow of D A, with Amelia McDonald, a cook, Jean McDonald, a stenographer, and Mary Macdonald, a waitress.

Today

2828 East Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 2815 East Georgia (1974) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 431 East Georgia and 568 East Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 11 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.