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A family name on West 31st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands and Arbutus Ridge

The McIntyres

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named McIntyre at two addresses in 1940, all on West 31st Avenue, with the close spellings MacIntyre and Macintyre. 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 McIntyres at 3142 West 31st in 1940. The directories print the name on 56 other streets too, all listed on the McIntyre name's own page.

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Where the McIntyres lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2960 West 31st Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R McIntyre, a stockroom at Woolworth's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L Wells at 2950 and A Miller at 2966. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3142 West 31st Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • A N McIntyre, retired 1940
    • Mary A McIntyre 1940
    • Robert F McIntyre, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: V H Akerman at 3126 and J D Purchas at 3158. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a stockroom.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (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 R McIntyre at 2960 West 31st 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 Ralph McIntyre there as the householder, a stockroom at Woolworth's. In 1940 the directory lists A N McIntyre at 3142 West 31st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Andrew N McIntyre there as the householder, retired, with Mary A McIntyre, and Robert F McIntyre, a student at UBC.

Today

3142 West 31st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1937 by the City's record; 2960 West 31st (1987) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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 McIntyres

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.