William Laird McKinlay, 1889-1983

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: White, Gavin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Bartlett; Robert Abram; 1875-1946; Biographies; Canadian Arctic Expeditions (1913-1918); Education; Expeditions; Exploration; History; Karluk (Ship); Mathematics; McKinlay; William Laird; 1889-1983; Meteorology; Science; Sea ice; Search and rescue; Shipwrecks; Sleds; Social interaction; Stefansson; Vilhjalmur; 1879-1962; Survival; Teachers; Alaskan waters; Alaska; Northern; Chukchi Sea; Sibir'; Russian Federation; Vrangelya; Ostrov; Scotland; Antarctic; Arctic; Herald Island; Laird; Sibir’; Sutherland; Wrangel Island; Antarc*; Chukchi; eskimo*; ice pack
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65337

William Laird McKinlay, one of the scientific staff of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, died at G1asgow on 9 May 1983 at the age of 94. The son of a factory moulder in the industrial town of Clydebank downriver from Glasgow, he became a pupil-teacher at the age of 14 and subsequently studi...