A family name on West 43rd Avenue, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Dunbar-Southlands
The McDonalds
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named McDonald at two addresses in 1940, all on West 43rd Avenue, 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
1914 West 43rd Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- A M Macdonald, a school principal 1940
- Don C Macdonald, a clerk at the Dominion Bank 1940
Next door in 1940: A Sutherland at 1906 and M J Dawe at 1922. The block, door by door
- 2
2130 West 43rd Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- Jean McDonald 1940
Next door in 1940: J Wilcox at 2116 and S McKendrick at 2146. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a school principal.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kerrisdale (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
In 1940 the directory lists A M Macdonald at 1914 West 43rd Avenue; 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 Angus M Macdonald there as the householder, a school principal, with Don C Macdonald, a clerk at the Dominion Bank. The 1940 name section lists Jean McDonald at 2130 West 43rd Avenue.
Today
1914 West 43rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2130 West 43rd, 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.
- *Macdonald A M1914 West 43rd, p. 260
- Macdonald Angus M sch prin1914 West 43rd, p. 369
- Macdonald Don C clk Dom Bk1914 West 43rd, p. 370
- McDonald Jean2130 West 43rd, p. 371
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.