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A family name on West 33rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The McLeods

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named McLeod at four addresses in 1940, all on West 33rd Avenue, with the close spellings MacLeod and Macleod. 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 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1530 West 33rd Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Beulah H McLeod, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Shaughnessy Heights United Ch at 1550. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1950 West 33rd Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • D MacLeod, a pro at the Quilchena Golf Club 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A McLallen at 1936 and R O Fry at 1964. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2762 West 33rd Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • H A MacLeod, an electrician 1940

    Next door in 1940: G E Crawford at 2732 and Miss M Matsui at 2796. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3125 West 33rd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W D B MacLeod 1940

    Next door in 1940: E D Stone at 3107 and A Rollo at 3157. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an electrician, a pro and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge (2), Dunbar-Southlands and Shaughnessy. 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 Beulah H McLeod at 1530 West 33rd Avenue, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway. D MacLeod is listed at 1950 West 33rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists David MacLeod there as the householder, a pro at the Quilchena Golf Club.

H A MacLeod is listed at 2762 West 33rd Avenue in 1940; 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 lists H Allan MacLeod there as the householder, an electrician. W D B MacLeod is listed at 3125 West 33rd Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too.

Today

1530 West 33rd, 1950 West 33rd, 2762 West 33rd and 3125 West 33rd still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the McLeods

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.