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A family name on East 2nd Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The McRaes

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named McRae at two addresses in 1940, all on East 2nd Avenue, with the close spellings Macrae, MacRae and McCrae. 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 McRaes at 2627 East 2nd in 1940. The directories print the name on 80 other streets too, all listed on the McRae name's own page.

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Where the McRaes lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1843 East 2nd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • M D McRae, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: W B Simmons at 1839 and R W Thompson at 1849. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2627 East 2nd Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A A McRae, an electrician 1940
    • Bernice D McRae 1940
    • Jean L McRae 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Bofolchi at 2633. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a driver and an electrician.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 M D McRae at 1843 East 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mundy D McRae there as the householder, a driver. In 1940 the directory lists A A McRae at 2627 East 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Arthur A McRae there as the householder, an electrician, with Bernice D McRae and Jean L McRae.

Today

1843 East 2nd (1985) and 2627 East 2nd (1998) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 McRaes

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the McRae 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.