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A family name on Windsor Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The McKays

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named McKay at two addresses in 1940, all on Windsor Street, 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 most under one roof: three McKays at 4131 Windsor 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

    3331 Windsor Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • D H McKay, a window shade maker 1940
    • Cath F McKay, a supervisor at Canadian-Bemis Bag 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Clapp at 3321 and W P Bachmann at 3335. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4131 Windsor Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs J McKay, widow of J 1940
    • Ada McKay, a packer at Nabob Food Products 1940
    • E Henrietta McKay, a dipper at Nabob Food Products 1940

    Next door in 1940: C O Bowen at 4121 and C T Hammon Jr at 4151. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a dipper, a packer, a supervisor and a window shade maker. Two of them worked for Nabob Food Products. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2). 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 D H McKay, a window shademaker, at 3331 Windsor Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists David H McKay there, a window shade maker, with Cath F McKay, a supervisor at Canadian-Bemis Bag. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J McKay at 4131 Windsor 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 lists Jessie McKay there as the householder, widow of J, with Ada McKay, a packer at Nabob Food Products, and E Henrietta McKay, a dipper at Nabob Food Products.

Today

4131 Windsor still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 3331 Windsor (2011) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.