A family name on Alma Street, Kitsilano, West Point Grey and Dunbar-Southlands
The McLellans
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named McLellan at one address, 5718 Alma Street in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940, with the close spellings McClellan, MacLellan and McLelan. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the McLellan name's own page.
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The McLellans at home
Southlands
- 1
5718 Alma Street
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- Esther McLelan, a stenographer at Greater Vancouver Water District 1940
- Margaret H McLelan, a stenographer at Canadian Industries Limited 1940
Next door in 1940: E L Pottinger at 5708 and A H Johnson at 5736. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a stenographer (2).
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Esther McLelan at 5718 Alma Street, a stenographer at Greater Vancouver Water District, with Margaret H McLelan, a stenographer at Canadian Industries Limited.
Today
5718 Alma still has its building from before 1946, dated 1929 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McLelan Esther sten Greater Van Water Dist5718 Alma, p. 391
- McLelan Margt H sten CIL5718 Alma, p. 391
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the McLellans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McLellan 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.