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Tannice McKillop is a resident of Ganges, B.C.

Archibald McKinlay was a fur trader who later served on the Indian Reserve Commission in B.C.

A.I. McLean was a surveyor working for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in Alberta.

Alexander McLean was a clothier and proprietor of Scotch House, Victoria.

Premier of British Columbia.

The McLeod family lived in Victoria, Kamloops and Saanichton.

John McLeod entered service with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1811 and rose to the rank of Chief Trader in 1821.

Malcolm McLeod was a barrister and an author.

Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock commanded the Fox, a steam yacht involved in the search for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic.

Margaret McMicking was the wife of Robert Burns McMicking, a Victoria businessman who owned the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company.

Robert Burns McMicking was a manager for telephone and electrical companies and an electrician for the City of Victoria.

Thomas McMicking was from Canada West and as part of the Overlanders, made the journey from Eastern Canada to B.C. in 1862.

James McMillan was a Victoria printer.

John Henry McMillan was a farmer in the Vanderhoof area.

Ernest Reburn McMinn worked as a land surveyor.

Daniel Lawrence McMullan was born on his family’s homestead near Clarkleigh, Manitoba on July 7, 1907. In 1918 his family moved to Salmon Arm, British Columbia where McMullan completed secondary school in 1924. The same year he moved to Victoria to attend the Provincial Boys’ Parliament.

In 1927 D.L. McMullan commenced his studies at the University of British Columbia with the goal of entering the Faculty of Applied Science. In his student years he secured summer employment on several forest projects which prepared him for his life’s profession. These included: 1928, field crew member on the Amiskwi and Beaverfoot Survey with the Dominion Forest Service; 1929, compassman with the PGE Resources Survey (joint survey project of BC, the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway); 1930, Elk River Forest Survey with the British Columbia Forest Service (BCFS); 1931, North Kamloops Survey with the BCFS; 1932, Railway Belt Survey with the BCFS; 1933 and 1934, Engineering work with Industrial Timber Mills around Cowichan Lake. D.L. McMullan graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Forest Engineering in 1934.

In 1935 he worked on the Kettle River Valley Forest Survey with the British Columbia Forest Service (BCFS). In 1936 and 1937 he worked on the E&N Survey with the BCFS. In 1937 he was appointed to a permanent position with the BCFS as Junior Forester based in Victoria. The same year he married Nellie May Laudrum. They had three children, two of whom also became foresters. In 1942 D.L. McMullan was appointed Assistant Acting District Forester based in Prince George. In 1946 he was transferred back to Victoria. He resigned from the BCFS and accepted a position as Forester with the newly formed British Columbia Forest Products Limited, based in Vancouver. In 1948 he assumed the position of Manager of Timber and Lands. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1972.

Daniel Lawrence McMullan died in Comox in 1992.

John McMurphy was a sergeant in the Royal Engineers during their tenure in B.C. in the 1860s.

William Graham McMynn was born in Scotland on March 14, 1864. He came to British Columbia around 1884 and and married Mary Turner in Rock Creek in 1890. He worked as a mining recorder in Rock Creek as well as a justice of the peace in Midway. He joined the Provincial Police, eventually becoming Superintendent. His last job before retirement was Warden of Oakalla prison. He died in Qualicum Beach on August 11, 1929

Major D.A. McNaughton was a resident of Victoria, B.C.

Violet McNaughton was a journalist and writer based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Donald McNeill served as the keeper of the Fiddle Reef Lighthouse near Victoria, B.C.