A family name on Creelman Avenue, Kitsilano
The McKays
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named McKay at one address, 1943 Creelman Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940, with the close spellings MacKay and Mackay. The directories print the name on 148 other streets too, all listed on the McKay name's own page.
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The McKays at home
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1943 Creelman Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- D A McKay, a warehouseman 1940
- Don M McKay, a salesman at Gordon & Belyea 1940
- William A McKay, an apprentice at Zenith Engraving 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs K C Impett at 1937 and M Rothstein at 1949. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: an apprentice, a salesman and a warehouseman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 D A McKay at 1943 Creelman Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don A McKay there as the householder, a warehouseman, with Don M McKay, a salesman at Gordon & Belyea, and William A McKay, an apprentice at Zenith Engraving.
Today
The City no longer lists 1943 Creelman, 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.
- McKay D A1943 Creelman, p. 38
- McKay Don A whsmn1943 Creelman, p. 381
- McKay Don M slsmn Gordon & Belyea1943 Creelman, p. 381
- McKay Wm A appr Zenith Engraving1943 Creelman, p. 382
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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.