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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The McJannets

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named McJannet at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the McJannets 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

    1661 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Robert McJannett, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: E E McMurray at 1637 and J A Vaughan at 1667. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1804 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Alice McJannet, a nurse for W H Pickering 1940

    Next door in 1940: J M Warwick at 1806. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3781 West 22nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J McJannet, a salesman at the Ogilvie Flour Mills 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Bevilockway at 3771 and J Rutherford at 3793. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an accountant, a nurse and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Kitsilano 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert McJannett at 1661 Harwood Street, an accountant. The 1940 name section lists Alice McJannet at 1804 West 13th Avenue, a nurse for W H Pickering. In 1940 the directory lists J McJannet at 3781 West 22nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists John McJannet there as the householder, a salesman at the Ogilvie Flour Mills.

Today

1804 West 13th and 3781 West 22nd still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1661 Harwood, so that building is 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the McJannets

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.