A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The McMillans
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named McMillan at one address, 659 East 8th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940, with the close spellings MacMillan and Macmillan. The directories print the name on 96 other streets too, all listed on the McMillan name's own page.
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The McMillans at home
Pleasant
- 1
659 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs J D McMillan, widow of R D 1940
- Flora A McMillan, a music teacher 1940
- Mary M McMillan, a stenographer at Buckerfield's 1940
Next door in 1940: C R Buckley at 657 and G Grant at 663. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a music teacher and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 Mrs J D McMillan at 659 East 8th 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 Jemima D McMillan there as the householder, widow of R D, with Flora A McMillan, a music teacher, and Mary M McMillan, a stenographer at Buckerfield's.
Today
659 East 8th (1982) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *McMillan Mrs J D659 East 8th, p. 193
- McMillan Flora A mus tchr659 East 8th, p. 395
- McMillan Jemima D wid R D659 East 8th, p. 396
- McMillan Mary M sten Buckerfield's659 East 8th, 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.