William Allen McLaren

William Allen McLaren (born 1938) is a retired Canadian engineer living (as of 2023) in southeastern British Columbia.

Born and raised in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, McLaren graduated in 1960 from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree.

[1] McLaren's early career involved hydrographic surveys in the Canadian arctic and the Persian Gulf before he joined the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1964 as a glaciologist based in Wilkes Station in Antarctica.

As a result of his Antarctic researches,[3] McLaren received a Master of Science degree from the University of Melbourne in 1968 and the Polar Medal in 1969.

[4][5] McLaren was Senior Engineer and later President of Western Canada Hydraulic Laboratories, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, from 1975 to 1991.