A family name on Homer Street, Downtown
The McDonalds
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named McDonald at two addresses in 1940, all on Homer Street, 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 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
- 1
514 Homer Street
Downtown, 1940
- N A McDonald, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: Maple Leaf Serv at 518. The block, door by door
- 2
1263 Homer Street
Downtown, 1940
- H McDonald 1940
Next door in 1940: Clark Bros at 1251 and J McQueen at 1265. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a longshoreman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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 N A McDonald at 514 Homer Street, a longshoreman. H McDonald is listed at 1263 Homer Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Herbert McDonald there as the householder.
Today
514 Homer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1908 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1263 Homer, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McDonald N A lngshmn514 Homer, p. 372
- McDonald H1263 Homer, p. 85
- McDonald Herbt1263 Homer, p. 371
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the McDonalds
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McDonald name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.