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A family name on West 6th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at five addresses

The directories print nine people named McKay at five addresses in 1940, all on West 6th 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: five McKays at 2736 West 6th 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

    304 West 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • McKay (no first name printed), retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Andrews at 306. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2225 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • L L McKay 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss C Kernahan at 2217 and R D McAllister at 2235. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2335 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A MacKay, a skipper at the CNR 1940

    Next door in 1940: H E Clarke at 2323 and F T Fairey at 2345. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2736 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W A McKay, of McKay & Flanagan Bros 1940
    • Earl A McKay, a millworker 1940
    • Frances M McKay 1940
    • Frank A McKay, a logger 1940
    • Myrtle M McKay, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: W U Lybarger at 2732 and F G Hughes at 2742. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3756 West 6th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J McKay, a salesman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: T T Horrobin at 3744 and H S Skinner at 3768. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the nine: a logger, a millworker, a salesman and a skipper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (3), Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 McKay (no first name printed) at 304 West 6th Avenue, retired. L L McKay is listed at 2225 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Lionel L McKay there as the householder.

A MacKay is listed at 2335 West 6th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Alex McKay there as the householder, a skipper at the CNR. W A McKay is listed at 2736 West 6th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William A McKay there as the householder, of McKay & Flanagan Bros, with Earl A McKay, a millworker, Frances M McKay, Frank A McKay, a logger, and Myrtle M McKay, a student.

J McKay is listed at 3756 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John McKay there as the householder, a salesman at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

2335 West 6th and 2736 West 6th still have their buildings from before 1946; 2225 West 6th (1959) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 304 West 6th and 3756 West 6th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 13 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.