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Geological Survey of Canada 2001 - Celebrating 160 years of expanding Canada's geoscience horizons
In September 1841, the Legislature of the Province of Canada (the area that is
now the southern parts of Ontario and Quebec) passed a resolution:
"...that a sum not exceeding 1,500 sterling be granted to Her Majesty to defray the probable
expense in causing a Geological Survey of the Province to be made."
This simple resolution gave birth the following year to the creation of
the Geological Survey of Canada, Canada's first scientific agency, led by
Sir William Logan.
No Stone Unturned is an account
of the first 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada.
On the way to Klondike, January 1898.
Charles Camsell (second from the left) and party on Liard River.
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