A longtime mining and construction executive, Stan McClay, has died at age 77.
A native of Vancouver, Mr McClay began his career in the mid- ’20s at Copper Mountain near Princeton, B.C., and during the period to the start of World War II was mine manager and mine superintendent for several companies, including Bralorne. After the war, (during which he was general superintendent for a construction company), he operated a small gold mi ne in British Guiana later returning to Canada to form a mining and construction contracting firm.
In the 1950s, he then spent about two years in Colorado and Utah, during Colorado’s uranium boom, once again returning to Canada to form his own construction company, McClay Construction, which he operated during the ’50s and ’60s.
He returned to the mining- construction industry as mine manager and contractor at Mt. Washington Copper near Courtenay, B.C.
He is survived by four sons, Wayne, Brian, Roger and Tyrone, a sister Mrs Shiela Darby, and seven grandchildren.
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