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About Jock McNiven
- John Graham "Jock" McNiven (April 2, 1900 – September 27, 1969) was a mine engineer, mine operator and politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. McNiven was a 1923 graduate of the University of Toronto (M.Sc.
- in Mining Engineering) and worked for several years in mining camps in Ontario.
- He first came to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in 1938 to work as mill superintendent of Negus Mines Ltd.
- His family joined him by in 1940.
- Upon the resignation of mine manager Bill Stuart, McNiven was promoted to this position in May 1939 where he remained until the mine closed in 1952.
- In 1946 he established a chapter of the Grand Lodge of Alberta (Freemason), the first lodge in the Northwest Territories. McNiven became the first member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories from the Arctic; in 1947 he was appointed to the council, for Yellowknife.
- At that time he was the only member living in the territory to serve.
- He would serve on the council until it was dissolved for the 1951 general election. In 1953, McNiven became the first mayor of Yellowknife, and served that position until 1954.
- In 1955, he took the position of mine manager at the Port Radium or Eldorado uranium mine on Great Bear Lake where he guided the mine to a close in September 1960.
- McNiven retired from Eldorado Nuclear Limited in 1965, and died at his Salt Springs, British Columbia home in September 1969. A number of local points in Yellowknife are named after him, including Niven Lake, McNiven Beach and Niven Drive.
- A tug owned by the Northern Transportation Company Limited, based in the town of Hay River, was also named after him - M/V Jock McNiven.
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