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A family name on Thurlow Street, West End and Downtown

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 Thurlow 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

    784 Thurlow Street

    West End, 1940

    • R McMillan, a movie operator 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E I Johnston at 752. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    998 Thurlow Street

    West End, 1940

    • A F McMillan, retired 1940
    • George C McMillan, a clerk at Placer Development 1940

    Next door in 1940: R P Barrett at 940. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a movie operator.

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 McMillan at 784 Thurlow Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert McMillan there as the householder, a movie operator. In 1940 the directory lists A F McMillan at 998 Thurlow Street. The 1940 name section lists Allan F McMillan there as the householder, retired, with George C McMillan, a clerk at Placer Development.

Today

784 Thurlow and 998 Thurlow still have their buildings from before 1946, 784 Thurlow on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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

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.