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A family name on West 13th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named McKay at two addresses in 1940, all on West 13th Avenue, with the close spellings MacKay and Mackay. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    965 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Jean Mackay, a housekeeper for C D Hunter 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J Barry at 955 and T F Furnell at 975. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2014 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Christina MacKay, a maid for Mrs E Nicol 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Winter at 2006 and L S Klinck at 2026. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a housekeeper and a maid.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Jean Mackay at 965 West 13th Avenue, a housekeeper for C D Hunter. The 1940 name section lists Christina MacKay at 2014 West 13th Avenue, a maid for Mrs E Nicol.

Today

2014 West 13th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 965 West 13th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 2 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

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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.