A Canadian Geologist

Biography of the geologist, explorer and historian Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858-1957). "Tyrrell explored the vast areas of western and northern Canada, consolidating information gathered by earlier explorers and filling in blank spots on the maps, especially in the Northwest Territories, while working for 17 years for the Geological Survey of Canada (1881-98). He explored the Dubawnt and Thelon rivers to Chesterfield Inlet under considerable hardship, discovered the rich dinosaur beds of southern Alberta and important coal beds at Drumheller, Alta., and Fernie, BC, and added knowledge to the geography, botany, entomology, mammalogy and ornithology for many regions. He later became a mining consultant, and then a miner in the Klondike gold rush and in northern Ontario, eventually acquiring considerable wealth" (The Canadian Encyclopedia). Peel 5457.