A family name on West 5th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The McKinnons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named McKinnon at two addresses in 1940, all on West 5th Avenue, with the close spellings MacKinnon and Mackinnon. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
- 1
25 West 5th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Joy W McKinnon, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: C Wong at 15 and S Nishikawa at 35. The block, door by door
- 2
4561 West 5th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- J McKinnon, in billiard tables and bowling supplies 1940
- Ian M McKinnon, a clerk for J McKinnon 1940
Next door in 1940: H W Rimes at 4553 and H T Stevens at 4569. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a billiard tables and bowling supplies, a clerk and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Joy W McKinnon at 25 West 5th Avenue, a stenographer. J McKinnon is listed at 4561 West 5th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists John McKinnon there as the householder, in billiard tables and bowling supplies, with Ian M McKinnon, a clerk for J McKinnon.
Today
4561 West 5th (2004) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 25 West 5th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McKinnon Joy W sten25 West 5th, p. 387
- *McKinnon J4561 West 5th, p. 186
- McKinnon Ian M clk J McKinnon4561 West 5th, p. 387
- McKinnon John billiard tables and bowling supps 947 Granville4561 West 5th, p. 387
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.