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A family name on West 14th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The McKenzies

In the city directories 1940 · eleven people at five addresses

The directories print eleven people named McKenzie at five addresses in 1940, all on West 14th Avenue, 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: five McKenzies at 1252 West 14th 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

    814 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss J J MacKenzie 1940
    • Jessie J McKenzie, a school vice-principal 1940
    • Margaret A MacKenzie, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Croll at 836. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    915 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Alice McKenzie, a nurse for Mrs E A Carnahan 1940

    Next door in 1940: H A McLaren at 905 and B T Motherwell at 925. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1252 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss G MacKenzie 1940
    • Grace MacKenzie, a school teacher 1940
    • C Annabelle MacKenzie, a school teacher 1940
    • Jean MacKenzie, a nurse 1940
    • Mabel MacKenzie, a stenographer at Price Wtrhse & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L W Emerson at 1246 and A H Grant at 1254. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1390 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Dr W J MacKenzie, a physician 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M E M M Tate at 1376. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2667 West 14th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • V W McKenzie, an attendant at Shell Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Ripley at 2659 and A Oldershaw at 2677. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for nine of the eleven: a school teacher (3), a nurse (2), an attendant, a physician, a school vice-principal and a stenographer. Three of them worked for Vancouver City.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (4) and Kitsilano. 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 Miss J J MacKenzie at 814 West 14th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Jessie J McKenzie there as the householder, a school vice-principal, with Margaret A MacKenzie, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Alice McKenzie at 915 West 14th Avenue, a nurse for Mrs E A Carnahan.

Miss G MacKenzie is listed at 1252 West 14th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Grace MacKenzie there as the householder, a school teacher, with C Annabelle MacKenzie, a school teacher, Jean MacKenzie, a nurse, and Mabel MacKenzie, a stenographer at Price Wtrhse & Co. Dr W J MacKenzie is listed at 1390 West 14th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William J MacKenzie there as the householder, a physician.

V W McKenzie is listed at 2667 West 14th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Victor W McKenzie there as the householder, an attendant at Shell Oil.

Today

1252 West 14th, 1390 West 14th and 2667 West 14th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1390 West 14th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 814 West 14th and 915 West 14th, 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, 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.