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A family name on Venables Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The McKenzies

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named McKenzie at four addresses in 1940, all on Venables Street, with the close spellings MacKenzie and Mackenzie. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three McKenzies at 2155 Venables in 1940. 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

    1744 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Don McKenzie, a grain door handler at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Sanderson at 1738 and P S Saville at 1758. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1942 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Charles McKenzie, a cook 1940

    Next door in 1940: K S Coe at 1938 and E Peters at 1946. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2050 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • William McKenzie, a brick layer 1940

    Next door in 1940: S B McLeod at 2042 and E B Mayne at 2056. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2155 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • K McKenzie, a hand janitor at the Dominion Bank Building 1940
    • Anne McKenzie, a stenographer 1940
    • William McKenzie, a foreman at Medosweet Dairy Products 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M L Murphy at 2149 and J Tyson at 2165. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all six: a brick layer, a cook, a foreman, a grain door handler, a hand janitor and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (4). 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 Don McKenzie at 1744 Venables Street, a grain door handler at the CPR. The 1940 name section lists Charles McKenzie at 1942 Venables Street as the householder, a cook. The 1940 name section lists William McKenzie at 2050 Venables Street, a brick layer.

K McKenzie is listed at 2155 Venables Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ken McKenzie there as the householder, a hand janitor at the Dominion Bank Building, with Anne McKenzie, a stenographer, and William McKenzie, a foreman at Medosweet Dairy Products.

Today

1744 Venables, 1942 Venables and 2050 Venables still have their buildings from before 1946; 2155 Venables (2016) 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the McKenzies

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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.