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A family name on West 18th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The McDougalls

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named McDougall at two addresses in 1940, all on West 18th Avenue, with the close spellings MacDougall, Macdougall and McDougal. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three McDougalls at 3947 West 18th in 1940. The directories print the name on 59 other streets too, all listed on the McDougall name's own page.

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Where the McDougalls 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

    56 West 18th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs C L McDougall, widow of A B 1940
    • Marguerite McDougall, a branch manager at Woman's Bakery 1940

    Next door in 1940: R R Pearce at 48 and A Vincenzi at 70. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3947 West 18th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J A MacDougall, an accountant 1940
    • Margaret MacDougall, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Rankin D MacDougall, a board secretary at the BC Coast Vegetable Marketing Board 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D Ryckman at 3941 and M M Milliken at 3951. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: an accountant, a board secretary, a branch manager and a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and Riley Park. 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 Mrs C L McDougall at 56 West 18th 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 Clara L McDougall there as the householder, widow of A B, with Marguerite McDougall, a branch manager at Woman's Bakery. In 1940 the directory lists J A MacDougall at 3947 West 18th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists John A MacDougall there as the householder, an accountant, with Margaret MacDougall, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company, and Rankin D MacDougall, a board secretary at the BC Coast Vegetable Marketing Board.

Today

3947 West 18th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 56 West 18th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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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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.