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A family name on Angus Drive, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy and Marpole

The McLeans

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named McLean at three addresses in 1940, all on Angus Drive, with the close spellings MacLean, Maclean and McClean. 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 151 other streets too, all listed on the McLean name's own page.

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Where the McLeans lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1690 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Victor A MacLean, a director for Ross Whittall 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Martin at 1638. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5289 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Donelda McLean 1940
    • Elsie McLean 1940

    Next door in 1940: S J R Remnant at 5237. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    7161 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • H W McLean, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: L R Bissett at 7137 and E Weinberg at 7187. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a director and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (2) and Kerrisdale. 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 Victor A MacLean at 1690 Angus Drive, a director for Ross Whittall. The 1940 name section lists Donelda McLean at 5289 Angus Drive, with Elsie McLean. In 1940 the directory lists H W McLean at 7161 Angus Drive. The 1940 name section lists Harold W McLean there as the householder, a school teacher.

Today

5289 Angus Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; 7161 Angus Drive (1985) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1690 Angus Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 5289 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 5200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

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 McLeans

Every directory, as one book

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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.