Word: mckeand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best friend Canada's Eskimos have ever had announced last week that he was stepping down to give a younger man a chance. On his 66th birthday (July 1) David Livingston McKeand will retire to "give a returned soldier a chance...
King of the Arctic. As superintendent of the Eastern Arctic, David McKeand is virtual potentate of a 700,000-sq. mi. area -one-fifth of Canada's land mass-in which live only an estimated 6,150 people (6,000 of them Eskimos). Bank manager, veteran of the Boer War and World War I, holder of the Military Cross, McKeand became a civil servant...
...Dominion's policy toward its Eskimo population. In the Hudson's Bay Company's sturdy little Nascopie, he has traveled 168,000 miles of icy Arctic waters in the past 14 years, learned to know many of the cheerful, grinning Eskimos by name. The Eskimos call McKeand "The Man With the White Hair." Sometimes they call him Umeealik (boss man). Boss McKeand carefully protects his Eskimos against the white man, prohibits whites from entering the territory without a permit. Result: not one case of venereal disease reported. He has no fears about the Eskimo's clinical...
When he retires, McKeand will move to warm, lush West Coast Victoria, where he plans to devote the rest of his life to growing roses. Because his shoes will be hard to fill, the Government may ask him to postpone his retirement until...
...Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore got a contract for twelve reciprocating marine engines. By midsummer, after the shipbuilding program was trebled, Maritime Commission's Jerry Land telephoned Moore and asked if the Hendy works could double its output. Moore boomed: "You might...