A family name on Richards Street, Downtown
The McKays
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named McKay at four addresses in 1940, all on Richards 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
- 1
518 Richards Street
Downtown, 1940
- Thomas M McKay 1940
Next door in 1940: Merritt Gordon Hotel at 514 and Merritt Gordon Hotel (Annex) at 520. The block, door by door
- 2
951 Richards Street
Downtown, 1940
- J Mackay, rooms to let 1940
Next door in 1940: F Vance at 947. The block, door by door
- 3
957 Richards Street
Downtown, 1940
- McKay (no first name printed) 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs E Zanon at 963. The block, door by door
- 4
1396 Richards Street
Downtown, 1940
- T W MacKay, a manufacturers agent 1940
Next door in 1940: Mansell T A Co at 1394. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a manufacturers agent.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (4). 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 Thomas M McKay at 518 Richards Street. J Mackay, rooms to let, is listed at 951 Richards Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists McKay (no first name printed) at 957 Richards Street.
T W MacKay, a manufacturers agent, is listed at 1396 Richards Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Thomas W MacKay there as the householder, a manufacturers agent.
Today
518 Richards still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 951 Richards, 957 Richards and 1396 Richards, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McKay Thos M518 Richards, p. 382
- Mackay J rooms951 Richards, p. 142
- McKay —957 Richards, p. 381
- MacKay T W mfrs agt1396 Richards, p. 142
- MacKay Thos W mfrs agt1396 Richards, p. 382
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.