A family name on Oak Street, Fairview, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Oakridge and Marpole
The McDonalds
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named McDonald at three addresses in 1940, all on Oak 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
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8765 Oak Street
Marpole, 1940
- E B McDonald, a caulker at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: J A Dickinson at 8755 and G H Lawrence at 8785. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a caulker, a clerk and a president.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Marpole, Oakridge and South Cambie. 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 A L MacDonald at 3375 Oak Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Allan L MacDonald there, a clerk at Bank of. In 1940 the directory lists G MacDonald at 7250 Oak Street. The 1940 name section lists Graham MacDonald there as the householder, a president at G MacDonald Ltd.
In 1940 the directory lists E B McDonald at 8765 Oak 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 Edward B McDonald there as the householder, a caulker at the City of Vancouver.
Today
3375 Oak still has its building from before 1946, dated 1930 by the City's record; 8765 Oak (2005) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 7250 Oak, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
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.