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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

The McLeods

In the city directories 1935–1945 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named McLeod at two addresses between 1935 and 1945, all on Quebec Street, with the close spellings MacLeod and Macleod. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 158 other streets too, all listed on the McLeod name's own page.

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Where the McLeods 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

    2649 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1935–1945

    • D B McLeod, a manager at McLeod Box from 1935 to 1945
    • D S McLeod, a compositor 1940
  2. 2

    3780 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A MacLeod, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: N McKenzie at 3760 and J C Aikman at 3790. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a compositor, a manager and an on active service.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and 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

From 1935 to 1945 the directory lists D B McLeod at 2649 Quebec Street. By 1940 it is D S McLeod. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don B McLeod there as the householder, a manager at McLeod Box, with Don S McLeod, a compositor.

A MacLeod is listed at 3780 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alex MacLeod there as the householder, on active service.

Today

2649 Quebec and 3780 Quebec still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Taken where the 2600 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 2649 Quebec. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 McLeods

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McLeod 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.