McMicking, Robert Burns

McMICKING, Robert Burns, mechanic, engineer (b 7 July 1843, near Queenston, ON; d 27 Nov 1915, Victoria). An employee of a telegraph company in Queenston, he joined the OVERLANDERS, a party of gold seekers who in 1862 trekked across the western Interior to the CARIBOO (see also GOLD RUSH, CARIBOO). His elder brother Thomas McMICKING was the expedition leader. When they failed to strike it rich, the brothers descended the FRASER R to NEW WESTMINSTER and settled there. Robert worked in a grocery...

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