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In 1842, the Geological Survey of Canada was formed to fulfill this request. [1] The First Canadian Pacific R.R. and Geological Survey parties for British Columbia, July 22, 1871. Photographer: Benjamin F Baltzy. Courtesy: Toronto Public Library Digital Collections Geological Survey of Canada building in Montreal, 1852–1874
After Canada's Confederation in 1867, his geological work came to prominence as the Geological Survey of Canada began, and he worked part-time for the survey. He received honorary doctorates from Laval University and the University of New Brunswick, and was awarded the Geological Society of London's Murchison Medal in 1917.
In 1958, Price began working in the Petroleum Geology Section of the Geological Survey of Canada. For the next ten years he studied the structure and tectonics of the Cordillera of western Canada, mapping its geological features. In 1968, he left the Geological Survey to work at Queen's University as an associate professor. Between 1972 and ...
Catherine Hickson (born 1955) is a Canadian volcanologist, formerly with the Geological Survey of Canada, part of Natural Resources Canada.Since 2014, she has been the chief operating officer for Dajin Resources Corp. and president, Tuya Terra Geo Corp. Hickson studied at the University of British Columbia and received her PhD in geology and volcanology in 1987.
Her first paper, on facies relations and reef-off-reef sequences in the upper Devonian, was published in Geological Survey of Canada in 1952. [1] The Devonian system, a geological period from the Paleozoic era 358 to 419 million years ago, along with studying the reefs, helped Belyea to map what Alberta looked like 350 million years ago. [7]
Jack Gordon Souther (April 25, 1924 – June 1, 2014) was an American-born Canadian geologist, volcanologist, professor and engineer.He contributed significantly to the early understanding of recent volcanic activity in the Canadian Cordillera.
His collaborators include scientists at the Geological Survey of Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the British Columbia Geological Survey, and faculty at SFU, University of British Columbia and Carlton University. In 2003, Clague was appointed Canada Research Chair in Natural Hazards Research at Simon Fraser University.
Ashton F. Embry (born August 13, 1946) is a Canadian research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada.. Embry is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, who received a PhD in stratigraphy from the University of Calgary in 1976.