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A family name on East Pender Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The McPhersons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named McPherson at three addresses in 1940, all on East Pender Street, with the close spellings Macpherson and MacPherson. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three McPhersons at 2014 East Pender 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

    2014 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • G McPherson, an engineer at the Atlas Flour Mills 1940
    • J McPherson 1940
    • McPherson, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Duncan at 2034. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2215 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A W McPherson, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Spatra at 2225. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2241 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Alex McPherson, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: D H Sloan at 2237 and H C Mayoh at 2265. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a carpenter, an engineer, an on active service and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (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

In 1940 the directory lists G McPherson at 2014 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George McPherson there as the householder, an engineer at the Atlas Flour Mills, with J McPherson, and McPherson, a saleswoman at Woodward's. In 1940 the directory lists A W McPherson at 2215 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists Alex W McPherson there as the householder, a carpenter.

The 1940 name section lists Alex McPherson at 2241 East Pender Street, on active service.

Today

2014 East Pender, 2215 East Pender and 2241 East Pender still have their buildings from before 1946.

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 2014 East Pender: no archive photo of the 2000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 7 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.