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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

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 Quebec 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

    1936 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • M L McDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: U La Belle at 1930 and G Bolton at 1938. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3472 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs L M McDonald, widow of A 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Rees at 3460 and A G Watson at 3484. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3745 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Murdoch Macdonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Beck at 3783. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2) and Mount Pleasant. 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 M L McDonald at 1936 Quebec Street. Mrs L M McDonald is listed at 3472 Quebec Street in 1940; 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 Lewella M McDonald there as the householder, widow of A. The 1940 name section lists Murdoch Macdonald at 3745 Quebec Street.

Today

3472 Quebec and 3745 Quebec still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1936 Quebec, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 3472 Quebec: no archive photo of the 3400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

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

The book of the McDonalds

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.