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A family name on West 37th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The McKinnons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named McKinnon at three addresses in 1940, all on West 37th 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

    2634 West 37th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Murdoch MacKinnon, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: P A Donnelly at 2620 and H J L Pearce at 2648. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3363 West 37th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • D A MacKinnon, an assistant engineer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Moody at 3349 and P W Orr at 3377. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3738 West 37th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • M N MacKinnon, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: F H Killick at 3728 and E H Taylor at 3750. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an assistant engineer and a barber.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2) and Arbutus Ridge. 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 Murdoch MacKinnon at 2634 West 37th Avenue, retired. D A MacKinnon is listed at 3363 West 37th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Duncan A MacKinnon there as the householder, an assistant engineer at the City of Vancouver.

M N MacKinnon is listed at 3738 West 37th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Malcolm N MacKinnon there as the householder, a barber.

Today

3363 West 37th and 3738 West 37th still have their buildings from before 1946; 2634 West 37th (2005) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 McKinnons

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McKinnon name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.