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A family name on Kitchener Street, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named McKay at three addresses in 1940, all on Kitchener 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

    1523 Kitchener Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • D MacKay, a master mariner 1940
    • Annie B MacKay 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I Skinty at 1517 and A E Wilson at 1533. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1557 Kitchener Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A S McKay, a police officer at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • John R McKay, a skate boy at Vancouver Roller Bowl 1940

    Next door in 1940: De L V Schaefer at 1549 and J Hunter at 1561. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2566 Kitchener Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A MacKay, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Fleming at 2556 and W Carlson at 2574. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a fisherman, a master mariner, a police officer and a skate boy.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 MacKay at 1523 Kitchener Street; 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 Don MacKay there as the householder, a master mariner, with Annie B MacKay. In 1940 the directory lists A S McKay at 1557 Kitchener Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Angus S McKay there as the householder, a police officer at the City of Vancouver, with John R McKay, a skate boy at Vancouver Roller Bowl.

In 1940 the directory lists A MacKay at 2566 Kitchener Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Alex MacKay there as the householder, a fisherman.

Today

2566 Kitchener still has its building from before 1946, dated 1937 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1523 Kitchener and 1557 Kitchener, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.