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A family name on Haro Street, West End

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 Haro Street, 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

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

    1185 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • R MacMillan, a clerk 1940

    Next door in 1940: Boarding House Lynwood at 1175. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1282 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • C McMillan, a boilermaker 1940
    • Margaret H McMillan, a stenographer at Shell Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss R Tanner at 1280 and H Walker at 1286. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a boilermaker, a clerk and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2). 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 R MacMillan at 1185 Haro Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert MacMillan there as the householder, a clerk. In 1940 the directory lists C McMillan at 1282 Haro Street. The 1940 name section lists Charles McMillan there as the householder, a boilermaker, with Margaret H McMillan, a stenographer at Shell Oil.

Today

The City no longer lists 1282 Haro, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 1185 Haro, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 McMillans

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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.