Belated Happy Birthday, Mr. Logan...
What's this? a 200th Birthday! Excuse for a Party?
Whose? Sir William Logan!! Who's he? Founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada, from 1842 - 1869 - hey!! That’s before Confederation. YUP!! So what did he do? Walked, Paced, Counted steps for a zillion miles through thick Canadian bush with swarms of biting flies long before anyone thought of bug spray -- rain or shine, even snow yet -- mapping the geology, and making maps as he traveled - or those that existed he corrected - wore out dozens of field boots which lined the survey office walls in Montreal. OH! yes he did have three or four amateur helpers. The first summary volume of Canada's geology was published in 1863 - copy in university libraries - and a map in 1865, with a larger version in 1869, which Logan probably hand coloured each copy himself. Corel Draw was in the future.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
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