====== McKay, William ====== 
(1772-18 Aug. 1832), fur trader. Parents: Donald McKay and his wife Elspeth Kennedy, of the U E Loyalist Charlottenburgh Township family. Though hard evidence is lacking, we may guess on the grounds of the dates involved that young William lived for a few years in GC, and at the very least, he must have visited the pioneer family home there. From about 1790 he was with the NWC (partner 1796). He retired 1807 from the fur trade. During the War of 1812, in command of a British force he captured Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. After the war he was an officer of the Indian Department , being at last superintendent of the Indian Department for the Montreal district. His death came in Montreal, of cholera, during a cholera epidemic. He was a brother of Alexander McKay and just possibly a brother of the fur traders Donald McKay and John McKay. He was married (1) to Josette Latour, a country wife, and (2) to Eliza Davidson. His son by the latter became a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. McKay Street, in Montreal, got its name from this family.


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<fs small>His life by Robert S. Allen in //Dictionary of Canadian Biography// Vol. VI * his life in Wallace and //MDict// * death of his niece, Mrs McNaughton, of Kenyon Township, //Glengarrian// 11 Oct. 1889
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