Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience.(Book Review)

Publication: Geoscience Canada

Publication Date: 01-JUN-05

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Geological Association of Canada

Edited by R.W. Macqueen Geological Association of Canada, Geoscience Canada Reprint Series 8, 2004, hardcover, 252 pages, $65 ($52 for GAC members).

Everyone interested in the history of geoscience in Canada (and that would be everyone reading this magazine, I hope) owes a huge thank you to Roger Macqueen, Gerry Middleton and the Geological Association of Canada for pulling together a widely scattered collection of articles on that very topic and supplementing it with valuable references for further reading.

The earliest geological observations of the part of the planet that has become Canada were made by explorers such as Martin Frobisher and Samuel Champlain as footnotes to their broader agendas of discover> Two centuries later, in the 1800s, the need to develop resources was imperative to the future of the Province of Canada, and interest in natural history was blossoming at a fabulous rate. This was the age of the self-taught geologist, and foremost amongst them was the Geological Survey of...

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