then studied geology and surveying with Sir William Edmond Logan* for about two and a half years

eminent scientists John William Dawson* and Sir William Edmond

DAWSON, Sir JOHN WILLIAM, geologist, palaeontologist, author, educator, office holder, publisher, and editor; b

generation after Sir William Logan. On the other hand, Dawson the scientist had set new standards for both the survey’s fieldwork and the reports that resulted. For the latter he was revered, in the words

Daily Free Press by offering its editor, William Fisher Luxton, the government printing contract

in 1840 and for the extension in 1864 to Newfoundland of William Edmond Logan*’s geological survey by Alexander

. 24 May 1827 William Chipman at First Cornwallis Baptist Church, and they had 12 children; d. 23 Oct

[see Sir William Edmond Logan*]. Chapman broadened his own research interests in geology and mineralogy to include Canadian

sanitary reform and at McGill University on his scientific work, becoming a friend of Sir John William Dawson* and Sir William

. thirdly 17 June 1884 in Logan, Utah, Zina Presendia Williams, née Young, daughter of

system, but Bisaillon and his associates seem to have diverted a share of Detroit’s trade to Philadelphia. William Penn, the proprietary of the province

Factory, he accompanied William Tomison*, the HBC chief inland, to Cumberland House (Sask.), Manchester House (near Standard Hill, Sask.), and

20 years he was to publish his scientific studies. He immediately won the admiration and support of experts, and particularly of Sir William Edmond Logan, the director of the Geological Survey of

, the mapping of the vast region between Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay) and the Lake of the Woods. Bigsby’s association with the commission had not only afforded him a vast area from which to

for the Canadian Agricultural Journal in 1843, and for the Geological Survey of Canada, directed by William Edmond Logan*, in

following summer Robert assisted Sir William Edmond Logan*, the survey’s director, in the Saguenay region of Lower Canada. This fieldwork

William Edmond Logan* and the Geological Survey of Canada, which Robert Bell

Barrett’s legal costs, preferring a court decision to the prospect of disallowing the law, which would have had political consequences. On 28 Oct. 1891 the Supreme Court under chief justice Sir William

and of publishing a circular for the new society. Barnston was encouraged by influential acquaintances such as William Edmond Logan

years. For the last five of these he superintended a survey district in the Isle of Lewis before coming to Canada with his family in 1855. He was recruited for the Geological Survey of Canada by William