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The McKinnons

In the city directories 1940 · 127 addresses on 89 streets

The directories print the McKinnon name at 127 addresses on 89 streets in 1940, in 20 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spellings MacKinnon and Mackinnon. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the McKinnons lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Downtown16 addresses
  2. Mount Pleasant16 addresses
  3. West End12 addresses
  4. Dunbar-Southlands11 addresses
  5. Fairview9 addresses
  6. Kensington-Cedar Cottage9 addresses
  7. Kerrisdale7 addresses
  8. West Point Grey7 addresses
  9. Grandview-Woodland6 addresses
  10. Strathcona6 addresses
  11. Kitsilano5 addresses
  12. Renfrew-Collingwood5 addresses
  13. Sunset4 addresses
  14. Riley Park3 addresses
  15. Shaughnessy3 addresses
  16. Arbutus Ridge2 addresses
  17. Hastings-Sunrise2 addresses
  18. Marpole2 addresses
  19. Killarney1 address
  20. Victoria-Fraserview1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    West 11th AvenueSix addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; 15 people: D MacKinnon, J D McKinnon and Alan G McKinnon, and twelve more
    1940
  2. 2
    Bute StreetFour addresses in Downtown and West End; four people: G Stuart MacKinnon, Helena McKinnon and N McKinnon, and one more
    1940
  3. 3
    Granville StreetFour addresses in Downtown and Fairview; four people: E W McKinnon, J McKinnon and McKinnon (no first name printed), and one more
    1940
  4. 4
    East 3rd AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Grandview-Woodland; three people: R McKinnon, A McKinnon and M J McKinnon
    1940
  5. 5
    East 45th AvenueThree addresses in Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview; five people: C G McKinnon, D MacKinnon and M MacKinnon, and two more
    1940
  6. 6
    Richards StreetThree addresses in Downtown; three people: E McKinnon, M MacKinnon and McKinnon (no first name printed)
    1940
  7. 7
    West 10th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; seven people: Mrs C MacKinnon, Mrs E L Mackinnon and Mrs M C McKinnon, and four more
    1940
  8. 8
    West 12th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; six people: M MacKinnon, Mrs B E McKinnon and Mrs J McKinnon, and three more
    1940
  9. 9
    West 14th AvenueThree addresses in Kitsilano and West Point Grey; three people: H McKinnon, J J McKinnon and Mrs E MacKinnon
    1940
  10. 10
    West 37th AvenueThree addresses in Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands; three people: D A MacKinnon, M N MacKinnon and Murdoch MacKinnon
    1940
  11. 11
    Blenheim StreetTwo addresses in Dunbar-Southlands; two people: D S McKinnon and J MacKinnon
    1940
  12. 12
    Cypress StreetTwo addresses in Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale; two people: G E MacKinnon and N MacKinnon
    1940

77 more streets, by name: Barclay Street (1), Beatrice Street (1), Broughton Street (1), Comox Street (1), Davie Street (2), Drummond Drive (1), Duke Street (1), Dundee Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 11th Avenue (1), East 12th Avenue (2), East 13th Avenue (2), East 15th Avenue (2), East 20th Avenue (1), East 21st Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (2), East 51st Avenue (1), East 55th Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (1), East 8th Avenue (1), East Broadway (2), East Hastings Street (2), Frances Street (1), Guelph Street (1), Haro Street (1), Harwood Street (1), Heather Street (1), Holland Street (1), Homer Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Howe Street (1), Inverness Street (1), Jackson Avenue (1), Jervis Street (1), Joyce Street (1), Kaslo Street (1), Keefer Street (1), Main Street (1), Marguerite Street (1), Melville Street (1), Monmouth Avenue (1), Montcalm Street (1), Nelson Street (1), Nootka Street (1), Prince Edward Street (1), Prior Street (1), Ross Street (1), Rupert Street (1), Trinity Street (1), Venables Street (1), Vernon Drive (1), Vine Street (1), Water Street (1), Welwyn Street (1), West 16th Avenue (1), West 18th Avenue (1), West 1st Avenue (2), West 29th Avenue (1), West 31st Avenue (1), West 32nd Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (1), West 35th Avenue (1), West 39th Avenue (1), West 40th Avenue (1), West 41st Avenue (1), West 43rd Avenue (1), West 49th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (2), West 64th Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (1), West Broadway (1), West Hastings Street (1), West Pender Street (2), Windsor Street (1), Wolfe Avenue (1), Woodland Drive (2), Yew Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 127 addresses, 50 still have their buildings from before 1946, 31 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 46; each street's page names them.

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under M. Want a name removed? Tell us.