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A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End

The McDonalds

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named McDonald at two addresses in 1940, all on West Georgia Street, 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

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

    100 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • D R McDonald, a helper at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
    • John McDonald, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Craig at 104. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1854 West Georgia Street

    West End, 1940

    • J M McDonald, a clerk at the Post Office 1940
    • John P McDonald, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: Davidson's Laminated Ski Fcty at 1852 and A A Maddison at 1864. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a clerk and a helper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and West End. 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 100 West Georgia Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Daniel R McDonald there as the householder, a helper at the Burrard Dry Dock, with John McDonald, retired. In 1940 the directory lists J M McDonald at 1854 West Georgia Street. The 1940 name section lists John M McDonald there as the householder, a clerk at the Post Office, with John P McDonald, a student.

Today

The City no longer lists 100 West Georgia and 1854 West Georgia, so those buildings are 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.
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.