A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
The McDonalds
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named McDonald at three addresses in 1940, all on West Pender 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
- 1
435 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- John H McDonald, a bridgeman 1940
- William McDonald, an elevator operator at BC Sugar 1940
- 2
821 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Norman S McDonald, a president at McDonald's Remec 1940
Next door in 1940: Horne Taylor & Co at 817 and C J Archer at 823. The block, door by door
- 3
1035 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Archibald McDonald, a waiter 1940
Next door in 1940: J Zem at 1033 and Mitchell Prntg & Pub at 1037. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a bridgeman, an elevator operator, a president and a waiter.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John H McDonald at 435 West Pender Street, a bridgeman, with William McDonald, an elevator operator at BC Sugar. The 1940 name section lists Norman S McDonald at 821 West Pender Street, a president at McDonald's Remec. The 1940 name section lists Archibald McDonald at 1035 West Pender Street as the householder, a waiter.
Today
435 West Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 821 West Pender and 1035 West Pender, so those buildings are 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.
- McDonald John H bridgemn435 West Pender, p. 372
- McDonald Wm elev opr BC Sugar435 West Pender, p. 373
- McDonald Norman S pres McDonald's Remec821 West Pender, p. 372
- McDonald Arch waiter1035 West Pender, p. 369
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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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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.