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A family name on Dumfries Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The McPhersons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named McPherson at two addresses in 1940, all on Dumfries Street, with the close spellings Macpherson and MacPherson. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three McPhersons at 6596 Dumfries in 1940. The directories print the name on 88 other streets too, all listed on the McPherson name's own page.

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Where the McPhersons 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

    4114 Dumfries Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • D I MacPherson, a bookkeeper 1940

    Next door in 1940: W F Shaw at 4124. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6596 Dumfries Street

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • R Macpherson 1940
    • Jessie F Macpherson 1940
    • McPherson, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs O Battryn at 6572. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a bookkeeper and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview. 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 D I MacPherson at 4114 Dumfries Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don I MacPherson there as the householder, a bookkeeper. In 1940 the directory lists R Macpherson at 6596 Dumfries Street; 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 lists Jessie F Macpherson there, with McPherson, a saleswoman at Woodward's.

Today

6596 Dumfries still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 4114 Dumfries, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the McPhersons

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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.