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Thomas Blakiston
Thomas Wright Blakiston, naturalist, magnetic observer and explorer (b at Lymington, Hampshire, Eng 27 Dec 1832; d at San Diego, Calif 15 Oct 1891). In 1857 Blakiston joined the expedition led by John PALLISER.
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Thomas Davies
Thomas Davies Thomas Davies, soldier, artist, naturalist (b at Shorter's Hill, England 1737; d at Woolwich, England 16 March 1812). He studied watercolouring under Gamaliel Massiot at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and went on to exhibit his watercolours and paintings regularly at the Royal Academy from 1771 to 1806. As an officer in the Royal Artillery who eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, he received several postings to North America. From 1757...
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Thomas Drummond
Thomas Drummond, botanist, (b in Scot c 1780; d at Havana, Cuba early Mar 1835).
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Thomas Griffith Taylor
Thomas Griffith Taylor, geographer, educator, explorer (b at Walthamstow, Eng 1 Dec 1880; d at Sydney, Australia 4 Nov 1963). A dynamic personality who did research on every continent, Taylor founded the first Canadian department of geography at U of T (1935).
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Thorvaldur Johnson
Thorvaldur Johnson, plant pathologist (b at Arnes, Man 23 Oct 1897; d at Winnipeg 15 Sept 1979). Johnson became Margaret NEWTON's assistant at the Winnipeg Rust Research Laboratory in 1925 and was its head from 1953 until his retirement in 1962.
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Titus Smith
Titus Smith, naturalist, surveyor, traveller, agriculturist (b at Granby, Mass 4 Sept 1768; d at Dutch Village near Halifax 4 Jan 1850). To his innate interest in all natural studies, Smith brought a mind well schooled in botany and a keen interest in the conservation of animal and plant life.
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Topographic Painters
Topography was a subject taught at the Woolwich Royal Military Academy by artists such as Paul Sandby, who achieved his fame with ornamental landscapes that combined the precision of topography with a flexible and poetic visual technique.
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Viola MacMillan
Violet “Viola” Rita MacMillan (née Huggard), CM, prospector, entrepreneur (born 23 April 1903 near Windermere, ON; died 26 August 1993). Viola MacMillan was an early female figure in Canada’s mining industry. She spent decades prospecting for mines across Canada with her husband, George. In 1933, MacMillan established a successful business to invest in mines. She was the longest-serving president of what is now the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, transforming the small regional association into a national body. Although later fully pardoned, MacMillan was the first person in Canada to be convicted of wash trading for manipulating the stocks of one of her investment mines.
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William Fuller
William (Bill) Albert Fuller, ecologist, conservationist (born 10 May 1924 in Moosomin, SK; died 13 June 2009 in Edmonton, AB).
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William Bell Dawson
William Bell Dawson, surveyor, engineer, civil servant (b at Pictou, NS 2 May 1854; d at Montréal 21 May 1944). Son of Sir John William DAWSON, he studied at McGill and the École des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.
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William Cameron
William Maxwell Cameron, physical oceanographer (b at Battleford, Sask 24 July 1914; d at Vancouver, 4 July 2008).
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William Edwin Ricker
William Edwin Ricker, OC, FRSC, fishery and aquatic biologist (born 11 August 1908 in Waterdown, ON; died 8 September 2001 in Nanaimo, BC). Ricker was widely recognized as Canada's foremost fishery scientist.
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William Fitzwilliam Owen
William Fitzwilliam Owen, naval officer, hydrographic surveyor (b at Manchester, Eng 17 Sept 1774; d at Saint John 3 Nov 1857). He is renowned for surveying the east and west coasts of Africa in the 1820s.
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William Francis Ganong
William Francis Ganong, regional historian, cartographer, botanist, linguist (b at Carleton, NB 19 Feb 1864; d at Saint John 7 Sept 1941). A passionate lover of New Brunswick, Ganong devoted his life to its study.
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William Ogilvie
William Ogilvie, surveyor (born 7 April 1849 in Ottawa, ON; died 13 November 1912 in Winnipeg, MB).
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