A family name on East 3rd Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise
The McMillans
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named McMillan at two addresses in 1940, all on East 3rd Avenue, with the close spellings MacMillan and Macmillan. 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 96 other streets too, all listed on the McMillan name's own page.
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Where the McMillans lived
- 1
1980 East 3rd Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- M J McMillan, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: S Dorrell Jr at 1970. The block, door by door
- 2
2465 East 3rd Avenue
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Laura E McMillan, widow of W J 1940
- May L McMillan, a clerk at the Workmen's Compensation Board 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs A R McDonald at 2457 and A Morrow at 2473. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a motorman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and 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 M J McMillan at 1980 East 3rd 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 Malcolm J McMillan there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Laura E McMillan at 2465 East 3rd Avenue, widow of W J, with May L McMillan, a clerk at the Workmen's Compensation Board.
Today
2465 East 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1980 East 3rd, 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.
- *McMillan M J1980 East 3rd, p. 178
- McMillan Malc J motormn BCER1980 East 3rd, p. 396
- McMillan Laura E wid W J2465 East 3rd, p. 396
- McMillan May L clk Workmen's Comp Bd2465 East 3rd, p. 396
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the McMillans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McMillan 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.