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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

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 Victoria Drive, 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

    1422 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • D R McDonald, of McDonald & Grundy 1940

    Next door in 1940: A S Tirrell at 1412. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2313 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs A McDonald, widow of N 1940

    Next door in 1940: I R Kearley at 2331. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2631 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A D MacDonald 1940

    Next door in 1940: J G Knight at 2611 and Mrs H E Paget at 2633. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 D R McDonald at 1422 Victoria Drive; 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 Don R McDonald there as the householder, of McDonald & Grundy. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A McDonald at 2313 Victoria Drive. The 1940 name section lists Annie McDonald there as the householder, widow of N.

In 1940 the directory lists A D MacDonald at 2631 Victoria Drive.

Today

1422 Victoria Drive and 2313 Victoria Drive still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2631 Victoria Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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.