the survey’s director, geologist William Edmond Logan*, he began studying the crystalline rocks of eastern Canada, sulphate and
England by a relative to convalesce.
Chapman decided to study civil engineering, and he worked under William Froude on the staff of
, 1904), 2: 44. Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison, ed. Logan Esarey (2v., Indianapolis, Ind., 1922), 2: 537. Mich. Pioneer Coll., 15 (1889): 151–54; 25 (1894): 431
Hall*, the geologist and cartographer Sir William Edmond Logan*, Charles Richard
years he was to publish his scientific studies. He immediately won the admiration and support of experts, and particularly of Sir William Edmond
Factory, he accompanied William Tomison*, the HBC chief inland, to Cumberland House (Sask.), Manchester House (near Standard Hill, Sask.), and
Dawson* and Sir William Edmond Logan. He collected natural history specimens, and became a
under the title Thesaurus Siluricus. In the book he repeatedly refers to the discoveries of Sir William Edmond Logan*, the
of the eight children of William Ironside and Catherine Airth; m. November 1889 Annie Gordon, and they had two sons; d. 12 Oct. 1910 in Montreal
Logan*, the provincial geologist and a former schoolmate of his father, and by John William Dawson*, principal of McGill and later
TREMAYNE, WILLIAM ANDREW (until about 1897 he spelled his family name Tremaine), actor, playwright, and stage
, 11U97, 11U116. Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison, ed. Logan Esarey (2v., Indianapolis, Ind., 1922), 2: 220. Mich. Pioneer Coll., 16 (1890): 50. Weekly Reg
over the survey’s priorities.
Before leaving Australia in March 1869, Selwyn accepted an offer from Sir William Edmond
opposite Jamestown as an employee of William and John Hay, correspondents of his brothers Robert and Alexander Dunlop, partners in Glasgow. At the outbreak of the American revolution, according to James’s
the winter of 1856–57, at the request of Sir William Edmond Logan* of the Geological Survey, he established the longitudes of
never completely trusted him. His prestige among the tribes in general was revived somewhat when Governor William Henry Harrison of Ohio devastated the headquarters of the confederacy at Tippecanoe (near
William Edmond Logan*, met with Bailey and Matthew to discuss the work. Between 1864 and 1880 Matthew, jointly with Bailey or with Bailey
birds. In 1865 Vennor accepted an apprenticeship under Sir William Edmond Logan*, head of the Geological Survey of Canada, whom he
DAWSON, Sir JOHN WILLIAM, geologist, palaeontologist, author, educator, office holder, publisher, and editor; b. 13 Oct
daughter of William James Stairs; she died after the birth of their first child a year later. Macdonald lived