McQuesten Opens QEW, 1940

	McQuesten Opens QEW, 1940 McQuesten may refer to: Jack McQuesten (1836–1909), American pioneer explorer, trader, and prospector in Alaska and Yukon Mary Baker McQuesten (1849–1934), Victorian-era Canadian letter writer and activist * Thomas McQuesten (1882–1948), politician in Ontario, Canada See also McQuesten Airport (TC LID: CFP4) near McQuesten, Yukon, Canada McQuesten, Yukon, an unincorporated community McQuistan McQuistan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dugald McQuistan (1879–1946) Scottish mathematician Finlay McQuistan (1896–1950), British World War I flying ace Pat McQuistan (born 1983), American football player Paul McQu ... {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jack McQuesten Leroy Napoleon "Jack" McQuesten (1836–1909) was an American pioneer explorer, trader, and prospector in Alaska and Yukon; he became known as the "Father of the Yukon." Other nicknames included "Yukon Jack," "Captain Jack," "Golden Rule McQuesten," and "Father of Alaska." Together with partners Arthur Harper and Captain Alfred Mayo, he founded Fort Reliance and a wide network of trading posts in the Yukon, often providing a grubstake to prospectors. He was the most successful financially of the trio, becoming a multi-millionaire by 1898 and buying a large Victorian mansion for his family when they moved about that time to Berkeley, California. He was the first president of the Alaskan Order of Yukon Pioneers and also belonged to the Yukon Order of Pioneers. He wrote a memoir, ''Recollections of Leroy N. McQuesten, Life in the Yukon 1871-1885'', which was published posthumously in 1952. Biography Leroy Napoleon McQuesten (called "Jack") was born in 1836 in Litchfield, New Hamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mary Baker McQuesten Mary Baker McQuesten (October 10, 1849 – December 7, 1934) was a Victorian-era Canadian letter writer and activist. She was the mother of politician Thomas McQuesten. Biography McQuesten was born Mary Jane Baker on October 10, 1849 in Brantford in what was then Upper Canada to parents Reverend Thomas Baker and Mary Jane McIlwaine. She attended Newmarket County Grammar School and later Mrs. Burns' Ladies Collegiate Institute in Toronto. McQuesten never received a formal university education. Mary met Isaac Baldwin McQuesten in 1869. The two married on June 18, 1873, though Mary broke off the engagement at least once. Their eldest child, Mary Baldwin McQuesten, was born in 1874. The couple had six more children between 1876 and 1885: Calvin, Hilda-Belle, Ruby Baker, Muriel Fletcher, Thomas Baker, and Margaret Edna. Muriel Fletcher only lived to 21 months, dying in 1882. Following the death of his father in 1885, Isaac McQuesten inherited Willowbank House and the McQuesten fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Thomas McQuesten Thomas Baker McQuesten (June 30, 1882 – January 13, 1948) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1943 who represented the riding of Hamilton—Wentworth. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mitchell Hepburn and Gordon Conant. Background McQuesten was born in Hespeler (now Cambridge, Ontario) in nearby Waterloo County, the youngest son of the five children of Isaac McQuesten and Mary Baker McQuesten. His father died from overdosing on sleeping pills leaving the family almost bankrupt when Thomas was six years old, and the family homestead narrowly avoided being sold to cover these debts. His family remained staunch Presbyterians, except one (Rev. Calvin, Chaplain of the Hamilton Sanitarium) and rejected joining the United Church of Canada in 1925. Thomas received his primary and secondary education in Hamilton at Central School,and the Hamilton Collegiate Institute. In his graduating ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	McQuesten Airport McQuesten Airport is located on the banks of the Stewart River near McQuesten, Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ..., Canada and receives no maintenance. References Registered aerodromes in Yukon {{Yukon-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	McQuesten, Yukon This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisions in Yukon that are classified as hamlets. * Ibex Valley * Mount Lorne Localities The ''Gazetteer of Yukon'' recognized 96 localities as of February 2012. Two of these localities, Tagish and Upper Liard, are designated as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada, though are classified as settlements. Aishihik Ballarat Creek Barlow Bear Creek Black Hills Boundary Braeburn Brewer Creek Britannia Creek Brooks Brook Calumet Canyon * Canyon City Carcross Cutoff Caribou Champagne Clear Creek * Clinton Creek Coffee Creek Conrad Dalton Post De Wette * Dezadeash Donjek Dominion Dry Creek Dundalk Eagle Plains Flat Creek Fort Reliance Fort Selkirk * Forty Mile Frances Lake Glacier Creek Glenboyle Gold Bottom * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]