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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Meiklejohns

In the city directories 1940 · six people at six addresses

The directories print six people named Meiklejohn at six addresses in 1940 in five of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Meiklejohns 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

    484 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Annie Meiklejohn 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M K Polley at 478. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    774 East 28th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • G Meiklejohn, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Frost at 766. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    648 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J H Meiklejohn, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Hodges at 640 and W E Hodges at 652. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1006 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • John B Meiklejohn, a sales manager at Superior Health Food 1940

    Next door in 1940: Belmont Grill at 1012. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3467 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W Meiklejohn, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: L L B Hargreaves at 3451 and M Murchant at 3477. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    3738 West 15th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • G Meiklejohn 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Chapman at 3730 and J A Pritchard at 3746. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a conductor, a motorman, an orderly and a sales manager. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2), Downtown, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Annie Meiklejohn at 484 East 10th Avenue. G Meiklejohn is listed at 774 East 28th Avenue in 1940; 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 George Meiklejohn there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway.

J H Meiklejohn is listed at 648 East Broadway in 1940. The 1940 name section lists James H Meiklejohn there as the householder, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital. The 1940 name section lists John B Meiklejohn at 1006 Granville Street, a sales manager at Superior Health Food.

In 1940 the directory lists W Meiklejohn at 3467 Quebec Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William Meiklejohn there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists G Meiklejohn at 3738 West 15th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists George Meiklejohn there as the householder.

Today

484 East 10th, 774 East 28th, 3467 Quebec and 3738 West 15th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1006 Granville, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 648 East Broadway, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.