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George Mercer Dawson
Dawson began his career in the 1870s as a professor of chemistry at
Morrin College in
Quebec City. He then performed extensive surveys of Western Canada in the
19th century beginning with the International Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876. The result was a 387-page report called
Geology and Resources of the Region in the Vicinity of the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, with Lists of Plants and Animals Collected, and Notes on the Fossils from the Killadeer Badlands currently part of Grasslands National Park. This report established Dawson as a respected scientist.
During 1883 and 1884, Dawson travelled through the
Canadian Rockies where he was tasked by the Canadian government to map out major mountains and mountain passes as well as significant rivers. Some of the many peaks he discovered were
Mount Assiniboine and
Mount Temple . As a result of his field research, a map of his work was published in 1886 covering the Canadian Rockies from the US border to
Red Deer Valley and
Kicking Horse Pass.
In 1887, he led an expedition into the
Yukon, developing some of the first maps of what later became the separate territory. His report was republished ten years later to satisfy the public's interest in the region as a result of the
Klondike Gold Rush.
Dawson City was named after him.
Dawson Creek, British Columbia is also named in his honour.
Dawson became a staff member of the
Geological Survey of Canada in 1875, progressed to assistant director in 1883 and finally to director in 1895.
Dawson died unexpectedly in
Ottawa after a one day bout with acute
bronchitis. He was interred in the family plot in the
Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.
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