Memorable Manitobans: Albert Clifton McMicken (1857-1920)

Civil servant.

Born at Clifton, Ontario on 10 November 1857, adopted son of Gilbert McMicken and Ann Theresa Duff (1807-1887), he came to Winnipeg in 1871 and took a job as an office boy in the office of the Receiver-General for the federal government. He stayed there for the rest of the career, rising in rank so that, at the time of his death, he was the Assistant Receiver-General. He died unmarried on 1 October 1920 and was buried in the Kildonan Cemetery.

Sources:

“Suddenly stricken, A. C. M'Micken expires,” newspaper clipping dated 2 October 1920. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B7]

Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 June 2022

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