continued to collect fossils and birds. In 1865 Vennor accepted an apprenticeship under Sir William Edmond Logan*, head of the Geological
.
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
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
geological survey of the united provinces and a principal aspirant to the directorship was William Edmond Logan* whose brother was associated
William Edmond Logan*.
Honeyman had more success in establishing the Provincial
eminent scientists John William Dawson* and Sir William Edmond
, 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
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
LOGAN, Sir WILLIAM EDMOND, geologist and geological cartographer, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada
sanitary reform and at McGill University on his scientific work, becoming a friend of Sir John William Dawson* and Sir William
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
meticulous observer as well as an ambitious man, was one of the pioneers, and the value of his work was recognized by later geologists such as William Edmond
Prescott* on the recommendation of William Whewell, president of the Geological Society of London. Jukes arrived at St John’s, Nfld, on 8 May 1839, and spent that month familiarizing
William E. Logan, Kt., first director of the Geological Survey of Canada (Montreal, 1883), 271–72. G. E. Jaques, Chronicles of the St. James St
in 1840 and for the extension in 1864 to Newfoundland of William Edmond Logan*’s geological survey by Alexander
. With the withdrawal of George Logan in 1850, the Taskers became sole owners of Hunters and Company. Although young and inexperienced, Patrick Tasker became the new manager; for the first few years he
known of his early life. He arrived in Canada from Paris in June 1843 and the next year applied to William Edmond Logan*, the new
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