George Mercer Dawson
1849–1901
Canadian scholar and civil servant. Eldest son of John William Dawson and Margaret Ann Young Dawson. Studied at the Royal School of Mines, London, 1869–72; graduated with distinction, winning the Forbes Medal and Prize in natural history and palaeontology, and the Murchison Medal in geology. Naturalist and geologist on the international boundary survey, 1872–4. Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, 1875–83; assistant director, 1883–5; acting director, 1885–6. Wrote on the ethnology and anthropology of western Canadian native peoples. FRS 1891.
Source
DCB.
Bibliography
DCB: Dictionary of Canadian biography. Edited by George W. Brown et al. 13 vols. and index to first 12 vols. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. 1966–94.
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