A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The McIntoshes
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named McIntosh at two addresses in 1940, all on East 11th Avenue, with the close spellings MacIntosh and Macintosh. 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 McIntoshes at 1664 East 11th in 1940. The directories print the name on 83 other streets too, all listed on the McIntosh name's own page.
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Where the McIntoshes lived
- 1
1606 East 11th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Walter J McIntosh, a police officer at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: G W Childers at 1610. The block, door by door
- 2
1664 East 11th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Mrs M McIntosh, widow of J W 1940
- Ena McIntosh, a bookkeeper 1940
- Mary H McIntosh, a stenographer at Canadian Laco Lamps 1940
Next door in 1940: J Watson at 1654. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a bookkeeper, a police officer and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Walter J McIntosh at 1606 East 11th Avenue, a police officer at the City of Vancouver. Mrs M McIntosh is listed at 1664 East 11th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Margaret McIntosh there as the householder, widow of J W, with Miss M C McIntosh, who worked for the BC Telephone, Ena McIntosh, a bookkeeper, and Mary H McIntosh, a stenographer at Canadian Laco Lamps.
Today
1606 East 11th and 1664 East 11th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McIntosh Walter J police Van City1606 East 11th, p. 380
- *McIntosh Mrs M1664 East 11th, p. 203
- McIntosh Ena bkpr1664 East 11th, p. 380
- McIntosh Miss M C emp BC Tel1664 East 11th, p. 380
- McIntosh Margt wid J W1664 East 11th, p. 380
- McIntosh Mary H sten Can Laco Lamps1664 East 11th, p. 380
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the McIntoshes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McIntosh 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.