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John William Dawson (1820-1899)
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photograph: John William Dawson (1820-1899), c. 1890. Principle, McGill College, Montreal William Francis Ganong Collection (1987.17.499). Sir William Dawson is known as the first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation. He included much of the geology of southern New Brunswick in the second edition of Acadian Geology in 1868.
