A family name on East 20th Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The McLeans
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named McLean at one address, 27 East 20th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spellings MacLean, Maclean and McClean. The directories print the name on 151 other streets too, all listed on the McLean name's own page.
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The McLeans at home
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27 East 20th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- L McLean, a stableman at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Dorothy M McLean, a stenographer at W Worrall Furniture 1940
- John N McLean, a swamper at W Worrall Furniture 1940
Next door in 1940: Monarch Furn Co at 15 and F F Crowder at 59. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a stableman, a stenographer and a swamper. Two of them worked for W Worrall Furniture.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 L McLean at 27 East 20th 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 Lewis McLean there as the householder, a stableman at the City of Vancouver, with Dorothy M McLean, a stenographer at W Worrall Furniture, and John N McLean, a swamper at W Worrall Furniture.
Today
The City no longer lists 27 East 20th, 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.
- *McLean L27 East 20th, p. 230
- McLean Dorothy M sten W Worrall Furn27 East 20th, p. 390
- McLean John N swamper W Worrall Furn27 East 20th, p. 390
- McLean Lewis stablemn Van City27 East 20th, p. 390
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the McLeans
Every directory, as one book
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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Another name, or a house
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.