A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End
The McNeills
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named McNeill at three addresses in 1940, all on West Georgia Street, with the close spellings McNeil, MacNeill and Macneill. 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 70 other streets too, all listed on the McNeill name's own page.
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Where the McNeills lived
- 1
801 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- W McNeil, proprietor of W McNeill Co 1940
Next door in 1940: devonshire hotel at 849. The block, door by door
- 2
900 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- Miss J McNeill, a maid at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
- Lily McNeill, a domestic at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Wilson W & J at 920. The block, door by door
- 3
925 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- N M McNeill, a physician 1940
Next door in 1940: Lunch Sandwich at 915 and Macdonald's Prescriptions at 929. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a domestic, a maid and a proprietor. Two of them worked for Vancouver Hotel.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 W McNeil at 801 West Georgia Street, with William McNeill, proprietor of W McNeill Co. The 1940 name section lists Miss J McNeill at 900 West Georgia Street, a maid at the Vancouver Hotel, with Lily McNeill, a domestic at the Vancouver Hotel. In 1940 the directory lists N M McNeill, a physician, at 925 West Georgia Street.
Today
801 West Georgia and 900 West Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 925 West Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- McNeil W801 West Georgia, p. 398
- McNeill Wm prop W McNeill Co801 West Georgia, p. 398
- McNeill Miss J maid Van Hotel900 West Georgia, p. 398
- McNeill Lily dom Van Hotel900 West Georgia, p. 398
- McNeill N M phys925 West Georgia, p. 57
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the McNeills
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McNeill 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.