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1866-1939 (Creation)
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- Burwash, Edward Moore, 1873-1951
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98 cm of textual records
5 maps
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Edward Moore Jackson Burwash (1873-1951) was a geologist, educator and Methodist minister. The son of Nathanael Burwash, he was born in Cobourg, Ontario and received his B.A. from Victoria University, his M.A. (Geology) from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915. He studied the sciences and law, worked as a field geologist for government and business, served as a Methodist minister in the late 1890s, taught at Columbian College (which became the University of British Columbia) from 1905 to 1910, served as chaplain overseas during World War I, and taught at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia during the 1920s. He worked for the Ontario Department of Mines in the 1930s, and retired in 1938. He died in 1951.
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This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.
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Fonds consists of of biographical information and ephemera, general correspondence, 1897-1927; notes and drafts on geology and theology, 1892-1934; sermons, 1906-1909; unidentified notebooks, 1922-1926; unsorted notebooks, 1866-1939 (86.058C); biographical information (86.368C), and maps, [188-?]-1881.
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- English
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Open