William F. “Bill” McKay (1853-1929)
	
William McKay was born in New Brunswick. He worked on the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway through Yakima country, and worked as a logger in western Washington state and Vancouver, British Columbia. He settled near Mt. Vernon, Washington and entered political life as a member of the Washington legislature, sponsoring many important measures including a land grant to the University of Washington. McKay stampeded north in 1898 and prospected in the Klondike and Alaska. He spent several years in the Kennicott district in the Copper River region, at the head of the White River, and in the Nebesna area. He mined on the Fortymile River and on Dominion Creek in the Klondike. He was an early prospector in the Mayo district, and McKay Hill in the Beaver River mining area is named in his honour. MaKay and "Snoose" Erickson found galena on McKay Hill in the 1920s. McKay died in Mayo, survived by two sisters and a brother living in the United States.((//Alaska Weekly// (Seattle), 6 September 1929 in Ed. Ferrell, //Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950.// Juneau: Heritage Books Inc., 1994: 212-213, 422.)) 
	
McKay Hill was mined in the 1940s and produced 143 tonnes of high-grade galena. It has a well-defined vein structure and saw very little modern exploration to 2018.((Metallic Minerals, “Metallic Minerals Makes Multiple Vein Discoveries in New Mineral Zones in the McKay Hill Project, Yukon Territory,” GlobeNewswire, 17 September 2018. 2019 website: 
globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/09/17/1571964/0/en/Metallic-Minerals-Makes-Multiple-Vein-Discoveries-in-New-Mineralized-Zones-at-the-McKay-Hill-Project-Yukon-Territory.html))