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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named McKay at three addresses in 1940, all on West 16th Avenue, 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 most under one roof: four McKays at 1591 West 16th in 1940. 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

    747 West 16th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Miss F E McKay, an elevator operator at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Janet V McKay, a branch manager at Canadian Window Bakeries 1940

    Next door in 1940: 4 listings at 737 and R F Smart at 755. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1575 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Bella McKay, a maid for Mrs J Baird 1940

    Next door in 1940: york manor at 1565 and willingdon lodge at 1591. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1591 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs A E McKay, widow of J L 1940
    • Dorothy M L McKay, a nurse 1940
    • Marguerite McKay, a stenographer 1940
    • Marion E McKay, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: gloucester court at 1575. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the seven: a stenographer (2), a branch manager, an elevator operator, a maid and a nurse. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and South Cambie. 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 Miss F E McKay at 747 West 16th Avenue, an elevator operator at the Hudson's Bay Company, with Janet V McKay, a branch manager at Canadian Window Bakeries. The 1940 name section lists Bella McKay at 1575 West 16th Avenue as the householder, a maid for Mrs J Baird. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A E McKay at 1591 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Annie E McKay there as the householder, widow of J L, with Dorothy M L McKay, a nurse, Marguerite McKay, a stenographer, and Marion E McKay, a stenographer.

Today

1575 West 16th and 1591 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 747 West 16th, so that building is 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.