A family name on Renfrew Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Renfrew-Collingwood
The McKays
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named McKay at one address, 1355 Renfrew Street in Hastings-Sunrise, 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
Sunrise
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1355 Renfrew Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- J M Mackay, a commissionaire 1940
- Barbara Mackay, a stenographer 1940
- Don H Mackay, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: L F Bell at 1345 and A N Cairnduff at 1375. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a commissionaire and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 J M Mackay at 1355 Renfrew 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 James M Mackay there as the householder, a commissionaire, with Barbara Mackay, a stenographer, and Don H Mackay, a student.
Today
1355 Renfrew still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Mackay J M1355 Renfrew, p. 140
- Mackay Barbara sten1355 Renfrew, p. 381
- Mackay Don H studt1355 Renfrew, p. 381
- Mackay Jas M commissionaire CC of C1355 Renfrew, 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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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.