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A family name on Barclay Street, West End

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named McKay at three addresses in 1940, all on Barclay Street, with the close spellings MacKay and Mackay. 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 148 other streets too, all listed on the McKay name's own page.

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Where the McKays 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

    1051 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Margaret Mackay, widow of J 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Scott at 1049 and R Short at 1053. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1460 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Don McKay, who worked for Boeing's 1940
  3. 3

    1736 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Robert McKay, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: G R Hanbury at 1724 and R W Ginn at 1746. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an employee. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 Margaret Mackay at 1051 Barclay Street, widow of J. The 1940 name section lists Don McKay at 1460 Barclay Street, who worked for Boeing's. The 1940 name section lists Robert McKay at 1736 Barclay Street, retired.

Today

1460 Barclay (1970) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1051 Barclay and 1736 Barclay, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

The Sutherland wedding party with their flowers at 1901 Barclay Street
9 September 1932 The Sutherland wedding party with their flowers at 1901 Barclay Street. Not at the house at 1051 Barclay: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4256. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 McKays

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McKay 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.