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

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named McDonald at four addresses in 1940, all on East Pender 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 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

    2476 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • J A MacDonald, a blacksmith 1940

    Next door in 1940: J M Oliver at 2470 and R Alberts at 2490. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2554 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • F A Macdonald, a chief engineer at Mainland Ice 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Adkin at 2550 and H S Brock at 2558. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2573 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • James MacDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: A R Webster at 2565 and J Newbold at 2579. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3521 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • P J MacDonald, a serviceman 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Laidlaw at 3507 and W Starkie at 3529. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a blacksmith, a chief engineer and a serviceman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (4). 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 2476 East Pender 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, where each person's work is printed, lists John A MacDonald there as the householder, a blacksmith. In 1940 the directory lists F A Macdonald at 2554 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists Frederick A Macdonald there as the householder, a chief engineer at Mainland Ice.

The 1940 name section lists James MacDonald at 2573 East Pender Street. P J MacDonald is listed at 3521 East Pender Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Peter J MacDonald there as the householder, a serviceman.

Today

2476 East Pender, 2554 East Pender and 2573 East Pender still have their buildings from before 1946; 3521 East Pender (1963) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 2476 East Pender: no archive photo of the 2400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 7 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

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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.