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A family name on Pendrell Street, West End

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 Pendrell 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

    1222 Pendrell Street

    West End, 1940

    • H O B McDonald, an engineer at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Duffield at 1220 and A B McKenzie at 1224. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1300 Pendrell Street

    West End, 1940

    • Alex McDonald, a millworker at Hardwood Milling 1940

    Next door in 1940: A M Lester at 1330. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1454 Pendrell Street

    West End, 1940

    • Ethel McDonald, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: seafield apts at 1436. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an engineer, a millworker and a music teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 H O B McDonald at 1222 Pendrell 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 Henry O B McDonald there as the householder, an engineer at the CPR. The 1940 name section lists Alex McDonald at 1300 Pendrell Street, a millworker at Hardwood Milling. The 1940 name section lists Ethel McDonald at 1454 Pendrell Street, a music teacher.

Today

1222 Pendrell (1965) and 1454 Pendrell (1968) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1300 Pendrell, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.