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A family name on East 45th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The McKinnons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named McKinnon at three addresses in 1940, all on East 45th Avenue, with the close spellings MacKinnon and Mackinnon. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 88 other streets too, all listed on the McKinnon name's own page.

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Where the McKinnons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    440 East 45th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • C G McKinnon, a sawyer at BC Plywoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: D E Hamlin at 436 and A V MacMillan at 444. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    655 East 45th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • D MacKinnon, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Lorraine MacKinnon, a counter girl at White Lunch 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J Flack at 645 and T F Johnson at 665. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2020 East 45th Avenue

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • M MacKinnon, a chief officer at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940
    • D McKinnon, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: F E Hamlin at 2042. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a chief officer, a counter girl, a longshoreman, a motorman and a sawyer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset (2) and Victoria-Fraserview. 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 C G McKinnon at 440 East 45th 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 Cecil G McKinnon there as the householder, a sawyer at BC Plywoods. In 1940 the directory lists D MacKinnon at 655 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Don MacKinnon there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with Lorraine MacKinnon, a counter girl at White Lunch.

In 1940 the directory lists M MacKinnon at 2020 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Martin MacKinnon there as the householder, a chief officer at the BC Coast Steamship Service, with D McKinnon, a longshoreman.

Today

2020 East 45th (2006) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 440 East 45th and 655 East 45th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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

The book of the McKinnons

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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.