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A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The McLennans

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named McLennan at one address, 2592 East 7th Avenue in Hastings-Sunrise, in 1940, with the close spellings MacLennan and Maclennan. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the McLennan name's own page.

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The McLennans at home

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).
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    2592 East 7th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • D MacLennan, an oiler at Kingsley Navigation 1940
    • Florence B MacLennan, an addressograph operator at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Gordon MacLennan, a passer boy at BC Marine 1940
    • L Ruth MacLennan, an assistant for M E Howe 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Muir at 2586 and G Errico at 2596. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: an addressograph operator, an assistant, an oiler and a passer boy.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Hastings-Sunrise. 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 D MacLennan at 2592 East 7th 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 Daniel MacLennan there as the householder, a carpenter, with Don J MacLennan, an oiler at Kingsley Navigation, Florence B MacLennan, an addressograph operator at the City of Vancouver, Gordon MacLennan, a passer boy at BC Marine, and L Ruth MacLennan, an assistant for M E Howe.

Today

2592 East 7th (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the McLennans

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McLennan 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.