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It became an iconic memorial of World War I, its abstract, streamlined design a fitting cultural emblem for the modern era. The Cross of Sacrifice, which Blomfield designed for the Imperial War Graves Commission, marks nearly all British Commonwealth military cemeteries with 40 or more graves. Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian, donated over 1 billion to COVID and Cyclone-hit India. Designed by architect Sir Reginald Blomfield, the monument consists of a bronze sword adorning a 24-foot gray granite cross. Restore The Canadian Knighthood May 19 Last week, cryptocurrency billionaire and Ethereum co-founder, Mr. President Calvin Coolidge approved Prime Minister King's proposal for the memorial in June 1925, and on Armistice Day (November 11) 1927, the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice was dedicated. More than 40,000 residents of the United States (including at least 35,000 U.S. citizens) enlisted in the CEF prior to U.S. citizens who volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and lost their lives in World War I. In this spirit, in 1925 Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King proposed a memorial to the U.S. Undaunted by the 'Herculean task,' Logan had forged Canada's first public scientific endeavour from its initial precarious decades into a permanent institution.The border between the United States and Canada remains the longest unguarded international boundary on earth, and the two neighbors have shared triumphs and tragedies throughout their history. He retired to South Wales in 1869 and was succeeded by A.R.C. The enormous expansion of the Geological Survey after Confederation had been anticipated by Logan as a natural development.

This masterly analysis of Canada's geological structures and economic minerals earned Logan the Royal Society's Gold Medal in 1867. While the Survey continued investigations in both laboratory and field, Logan in 1863 published Geology of Canada, followed in 1865 by an atlas and in 1869 by a larger geological map. Similarly, at the Paris Exposition in 1855, he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour. As a result of his outstanding collection of Canadian minerals and his geological map of Canada, exhibited at London's Crystal Palace in 1851, Logan became the first native Canadian inducted into the Royal Society of London for achievements in Canada. He founded a geological museum mapped the often uncharted lands he surveyed analysed the copper-bearing north shore of Lake Superior. But Logan justified continued public funding of the Survey in other ways. Logan's reputation as a geologist, his Canadian birth, and his social and family connections in Montréal secured him the position of geologist of the Province of Canada in April 1842.īy 1844 Logan and one assistant, Alexander MURRAY, had divided the geological formations of the province into 3 main divisions he concluded reluctantly that none could be expected to yield coal. In 1840 Logan read to the Geological Society of London his theory of the in situ formation of coal, which enabled geologists to determine the location of workable deposits of carboniferous strata. These highly accurate maps were adopted by the Geological Survey of Great Britain. A systematic thinker by nature, and anxious to find a reliable source of coal, he mapped the nearby coal seams topographically and cross-sectionally. In 1816 he took a year of medical studies at the U of Edinburgh before entering an uncle's business.įrom 1831 Logan managed the Forest Copper Works near Swansea, in South Wales. He attended Alexander Skakel's school in Montréal and the Edinburgh High School, Scotland.

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Logan identified and mapped the major geological structures of the Province of Canada, in particular the Laurentian and Huronian series of the Precambrian SHIELD. Logan, Sir William Edmond Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist, first director of the GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA (b at Montréal d at Castle Malgwyn, Cilgerran, S Wales 22 June 1875). Logan was the first director of the Geological Survey (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-119978).

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