America, probably that year, with William Miller, the son of another paper manufacturer, and Alexander and John Logan, brothers who were also trained apprentices. The four travelling companions became
.
James Richardson immigrated to Canada in 1829 where he was employed as a farm labourer in Lachine and later as a teacher in Beauharnois County, near Montreal, before he was engaged by William Edmond
continued to collect fossils and birds. In 1865 Vennor accepted an apprenticeship under Sir William Edmond Logan*, head of the Geological
William Edmond Logan* of the Geological Survey, he established the longitudes of Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, and several Canadian towns
DAWSON, Sir JOHN WILLIAM, geologist, palaeontologist, author, educator, office holder, publisher, and editor; b
the survey’s director, geologist William Edmond Logan*, he began studying the crystalline rocks of eastern Canada, sulphate and
in Scotland. He turned to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (London). Lawson wrote for advice, he said, on behalf of “a friend” who was contemplating a
ventilation of dwelling-houses & schools, an address he had given to the Montreal Mechanics’ Institute. In 1862, as the representative of the Eastern Townships, he accompanied Sir William Edmond
throughout Upper Canada with power to appoint police constables and to charge salaries and travelling expenses to the government. Frederick William
England were factors in his being denied his place in the history of Canadian literature for nearly a century. A bibliography published in 1895 attributed the book to Susanna Moodie. William Renwick
. thirdly 17 June 1884 in Logan, Utah, Zina Presendia Williams, née Young, daughter of
[see Sir William Edmond Logan*]. Chapman broadened his own research interests in geology and mineralogy to include Canadian
Daily Free Press by offering its editor, William Fisher Luxton, the government printing contract
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
. 1853 Jane Logan Moffatt, and they had ten children; d. 3 Oct. 1901 in Dartmouth, N.S
FONSECA, WILLIAM GOMEZ (known until around 1840 as Don Derigo Nojada Gomez da Silva Fonseca; in later years he
and the grain-elevator owners [see William Watson Ogilvie*]. Within little more than a year the organization had disappeared
.
Harrington is the author of Life of Sir William E. Logan, Kt., ll.d., f.r.s., f.g.s
