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A family name on West 21st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The McKenzies

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named McKenzie at two addresses in 1940, all on West 21st Avenue, 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 most under one roof: five McKenzies at 981 West 21st 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

    59 West 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • R C McKenzie, a mechanic at Johnston National Storage 1940

    Next door in 1940: H D Lowe at 33 and J R Nixon at 95. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    981 West 21st Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • R G MacKenzie, in assistant superintendent roads at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Cecil R MacKenzie, a bookkeeper 1940
    • Gladys E MacKenzie, a stenographer for H Castillou 1940
    • Ken MacKenzie 1940
    • Merle MacKenzie, a stenographer at Macaulay, Nicolls, Maitland 1940

    Next door in 1940: R F MacGregor at 975 and J Brown at 987. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a stenographer (2), an assistant superintendent roads, a bookkeeper and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and South Cambie. 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 R C McKenzie at 59 West 21st 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 Ross C McKenzie there as the householder, a mechanic at Johnston National Storage. In 1940 the directory lists R G MacKenzie at 981 West 21st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Russell G MacKenzie there as the householder, in assistant superintendent roads at the City of Vancouver, with Cecil R MacKenzie, a bookkeeper, Gladys E MacKenzie, a stenographer for H Castillou, Ken MacKenzie, and Merle MacKenzie, a stenographer at Macaulay, Nicolls, Maitland.

Today

59 West 21st and 981 West 21st still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 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.