A family name on West 9th Avenue, West Point Grey
The McPhersons
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named McPherson at one address, 4380 West 9th Avenue in West Point Grey, in 1940, with the close spellings Macpherson and MacPherson. The directories print the name on 88 other streets too, all listed on the McPherson name's own page.
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The McPhersons at home
Point Grey
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4380 West 9th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- A D MacPherson, a carpenter 1940
- Don W MacPherson, a photographer 1940
- Frederick R MacPherson, a clerk 1940
- J Wallace MacPherson, a stenographer for W T Money 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs V W Warden at 4370 and J McR Brough at 4390. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a carpenter, a clerk, a photographer and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West Point Grey. 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 A D MacPherson at 4380 West 9th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Angus D MacPherson there as the householder, a carpenter, with Don W MacPherson, a photographer, Frederick R MacPherson, a clerk, and J Wallace MacPherson, a stenographer for W T Money.
Today
The City no longer lists 4380 West 9th, 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.
- *MacPherson A D4380 West 9th, p. 197
- MacPherson Angus D carp4380 West 9th, p. 399
- MacPherson Don W photog4380 West 9th, p. 399
- MacPherson Fredk R clk4380 West 9th, p. 399
- MacPherson J Wallace sten W T Money4380 West 9th, p. 399
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the McPhersons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McPherson 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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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.