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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The McLeans

In the city directories 1905–1940 · 246 addresses on 152 streets

The directories print the McLean name at 246 addresses on 152 streets between 1905 and 1940, in 21 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spellings MacLean, Maclean and McClean. 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 McLeans 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. Kensington-Cedar Cottage27 addresses
  2. West End27 addresses
  3. Downtown24 addresses
  4. Kitsilano23 addresses
  5. Mount Pleasant22 addresses
  6. Dunbar-Southlands18 addresses
  7. West Point Grey14 addresses
  8. Fairview13 addresses
  9. Strathcona13 addresses
  10. Kerrisdale10 addresses
  11. Grandview-Woodland8 addresses
  12. Hastings-Sunrise8 addresses
  13. Renfrew-Collingwood7 addresses
  14. Riley Park7 addresses
  15. Shaughnessy6 addresses
  16. South Cambie6 addresses
  17. Sunset4 addresses
  18. Arbutus Ridge3 addresses
  19. Victoria-Fraserview3 addresses
  20. Marpole2 addresses
  21. Killarney1 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 13th AvenueEight addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; 14 people: K McLean, W A McLean, D M McLean and eleven more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 14th AvenueSix addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; 13 people: A McLean, J H McLean, Mrs M C McLean and ten more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 10th AvenueFive addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; seven people: G S MacLean, Mrs M McLean, John C McLean and four more
    1940
  4. 4
    West 11th AvenueFive addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; five people: A L McLean, A M Maclean, F C McLean and two more
    1940
  5. 5
    Nelson StreetFour addresses in West End; five people: M A McLean, W McK McLean, Courtney F MacLean and two more
    1940
  6. 6
    West 12th AvenueFour addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; five people: J McLean, A R MacLean, D McLean and two more
    1940
  7. 7
    Angus DriveThree addresses in Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale; four people: H W McLean, Donelda McLean, Elsie McLean and one more
    1940
  8. 8
    Bute StreetThree addresses in Downtown and West End; four people: B McLean, Burton McLean, Don L McLean and one more
    1940
  9. 9
    East 12th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant; three people: A MacLean, R MacLean and Dorothy E McLean
    1940
  10. 10
    East 13th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; four people: J McLean, A MacLean, Bernice V McLean and one more
    1940
  11. 11
    East 22nd AvenueThree addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood; three people: R McLean, S MacLean and Angus Maclean
    1940
  12. 12
    East 33rd AvenueThree addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage; three people: A A F MacLean, A McLean and J MacLean
    1940

140 more streets, by name: Adanac Street (1), Alberni Street (2), Alexander Street (1), Alice Street (1), Balaclava Street (1), Barclay Street (2), Bayswater Street (1), Beach Avenue (1), Beatrice Street (1), Bidwell Street (1), Blanca Street (1), Blenheim Street (1), Broughton Street (2), Burrard Street (1), Cambie Street (1), Cambridge Street (1), Cardero Street (1), Charles Street (1), Chester Street (2), Commercial Street (1), Comox Street (2), Cypress Street (1), Drake Street (1), Dunbar Street (2), Dundas Street (1), Dunsmuir Street (1), East 11th Avenue (2), East 14th Avenue (2), East 15th Avenue (2), East 16th Avenue (1), East 18th Avenue (2), East 19th Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (1), East 23rd Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (2), East 26th Avenue (1), East 27th Avenue (1), East 2nd Avenue (1), East 30th Avenue (1), East 36th Avenue (1), East 38th Avenue (1), East 43rd Avenue (1), East 44th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 50th Avenue (2), East 54th Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 60th Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (2), East Broadway (2), East Cordova Street (1), East Georgia Street (2), East Hastings Street (3), East Pender Street (2), Elgin Street (1), Fleming Street (1), Franklin Street (2), Fremlin Street (1), Galt Street (1), Garden Drive (1), Glen Drive (3), Granville Street (1), Guelph Street (1), Hamilton Street (2), Haro Street (3), Harriet Street (1), Hemlock Street (2), Highbury Street (1), Homer Street (1), Horley Street (1), Hornby Street (2), Howe Street (1), Jervis Street (2), Keefer Street (2), Kingsway (1), Laburnum Street (1), Lanark Street (1), Larch Street (1), Laurel Street (1), Macdonald Street (1), Main Street (3), Marguerite Street (2), McKinnon Street (1), Melville Street (1), Monmouth Avenue (1), Nanaimo Street (1), Nanton Avenue (1), Nicola Street (2), Ontario Street (1), Osler Street (1), Pacific Street (1), Perry Street (1), Point Grey Road (1), Powell Street (1), Prior Street (1), Reid Street (1), Richards Street (1), Seymour Street (2), Stephens Street (1), Thurlow Street (2), Trafalgar Street (1), Triumph Street (1), Vanness Avenue (1), Vine Street (1), Walden Street (1), West 15th Avenue (3), West 16th Avenue (1), West 19th Avenue (3), West 20th Avenue (2), West 21st Avenue (2), West 23rd Avenue (1), West 26th Avenue (3), West 29th Avenue (1), West 30th Avenue (2), West 32nd Avenue (3), West 34th Avenue (2), West 36th Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (3), West 38th Avenue (1), West 39th Avenue (1), West 3rd Avenue (2), West 40th Avenue (1), West 41st Avenue (1), West 42nd Avenue (1), West 43rd Avenue (2), West 45th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 65th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (1), West 8th Avenue (2), West 9th Avenue (1), West Broadway (3), West Cordova Street (1), West Georgia Street (3), West Hastings Street (1), West King Edward Avenue (1), West Pender Street (2), William Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 246 addresses, 94 still have their buildings from before 1946, two have buildings standing whose year the City doesn't record, 60 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 90; each street's page names them.

The book of the McLeans

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The family book reads the McLean 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 (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.