An early prospector of the Porcupine district, Sandy Mclntyre.
The co-discoverer in 1909 of the claims that later became the great Mclntyre mine, Mclntyre represented one type of individual attracted to mining frontiers. A Scottish iron moulder whose actual name was Alexander Oliphant, he left for Canada to escape from what he felt was an over-demanding wife. He sold his claims in bits and pieces as the demands of alcohol dictated, but was later saved from poverty by a modest life pension from the company which developed the mine.
