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A family name on Cartier Street, Marpole, Shaughnessy and Oakridge

The McKenzies

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named McKenzie at two addresses in 1940, all on Cartier Street, with the close spellings MacKenzie and Mackenzie. 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 172 other streets too, all listed on the McKenzie name's own page.

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Where the McKenzies 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

    7826 Cartier Street

    Marpole, 1940

    • Lottie E McKenzie, a bookkeeper at Scott-Bathgate 1940

    Next door in 1940: R F Parks at 7802 and J R Millar at 7838. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    8029 Cartier Street

    Marpole, 1940

    • J MacKenzie, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: L H Turriff at 8049. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a bookkeeper and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Marpole (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lottie E McKenzie at 7826 Cartier Street, a bookkeeper at Scott-Bathgate. J MacKenzie is listed at 8029 Cartier Street 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 John MacKenzie there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver.

Today

8029 Cartier still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; 7826 Cartier (2011) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Firemen with their motor engines outside the Point Grey fire hall at Cartier Street and 38th Avenue
About 1920 Firemen with their motor engines outside the Point Grey fire hall at Cartier Street and 38th Avenue. Not at the house at 8029 Cartier: no archive photo of the 8000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, FD P44. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 McKenzies

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McKenzie 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.