Josh McMeekan
Josh McMeekan was a prospector, mining engineer and journalist.[1][2][3] He was born, in London, England, in 1903, but was raised in Scotland. He made his way to Canada, in 1925, eventually settling in the Northwest Territories. In 1941 he married Mildred Hall, the first schoolteacher in Yellowknife. The pair collaborated on The Yellowknife Blade, which McMeekan had founded.[4] The Blade was the Northwest Territories second newspaper. Josh had worked on The Propector, the first newspaper. The couple would later publish other newspapers, like Uranium Era, which they subtitled "The voice of Canada's Uranium Capital".[5]
They raised their daughter, Mildred McMeekan in a rustic cabin.
In 1942 bird specialists from The Audubon Society were hosted by the McMeekans.[6]
According to Dave Bidini's Midnight Light, The Yellowknife Blade was mimeographed on legal-sized paper, with handwritten headlines, and hand-drawn masthead and advertizements.[4]
John David Hamilton, in his book Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994, called McMeekan an "agitator for responsible government" and characterized him as "the very prototype of the 'Concerned Citizen' one encounters in Letters To The Editor everywhere."[7]
In 1984 Gladys McCurdy Gould edited McMeekan's columns into a book entitled "Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "McMeekan (family)". NWT archives. https://gnwttest.accesstomemory.org/mcmeekan-family. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ↑ Adelaide Leitch (1968). Canada, Young Giant of the North. T. Nelson. p. 96. https://books.google.ca/books?id=wiRaAAAAYAAJ&q=Jock+McMeekan&dq=Jock+McMeekan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9rtq786zxAhVHGs0KHXdCBZAQ6AEwBnoECDoQAg. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "In 1935, a Scot by the name of Jock McMeekan camped alone on the shores of Great Slave Lake. A few years later, Jock was walking the streets of a complete town, Yellowknife, 700 air miles from Edmonton."
- ↑ "Northern Affairs Critic Dies". Leader Post (Hay River, NWT). 1963-09-20. Archived from the original on 2021-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623063300/https://img0.newspapers.com/clip/59079919/obituary-for-john-murray-mcmeekan/. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dave Bidini (2018). Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to the North. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 9780771017797. https://books.google.ca/books?id=jr1FDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46&dq=Mildred+McMeekan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXzsi6_KzxAhUGZc0KHUzKCXMQ6AEwAHoECCcQAg#v=onepage&q=Mildred%20McMeekan&f=false. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ↑ John Murray McMeekan; Mildred McMeekan (1957-05-11). "Uranium Era: The voice of Canada's Uranium Capital". Uranium Era 4 (11). http://uraniumcity-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Uranium-Era-1957.pdf. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ↑ Research Report ... of the National Audubon Society, National Audubon Society. National Audubon Society. 1942. https://books.google.ca/books?id=2OJOAQAAMAAJ&q=Jock+McMeekan&dq=Jock+McMeekan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9rtq786zxAhVHGs0KHXdCBZAQ6AEwBXoECGAQAg. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ↑ John David Hamilton. Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994. Dundurn Press. p. 32, 84. ISBN 9781550022063. Archived from the original on 2021-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623042854/https://books.google.ca/books?id=jC_wtCkyIOYC&pg=PA32&dq=Jock+McMeekan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9rtq786zxAhVHGs0KHXdCBZAQ6AEwA3oECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=Jock%20McMeekan&f=false. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
External links
- Jock McMeekan (1984). Gladys McCurdy Gould. ed. Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade. Lambrecht Publications. ISBN 978091938308. https://books.google.ca/books?id=o68UAAAACAAJ&dq=Jock+McMeekan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
