Early Fossil Finders

The Gesner Museum was the first museum in Canada.

Logan's private collection of specimens eventually became the National Museum of Canada.

Following his passion for scientific research and geology, Honeyman became the first curator of the Nova Scotia Museum.

Dawson discovered the remains of some of the earliest known reptiles, Hylonomus lyelli.

The maps Fletcher did with Faribault were the first accurate delineation of many of the province's coalfields.

Spent most of his fifty year career studying gold deposits and geological mapping.

Although he didn't believe in continental drift, Bell became the father of modern plate-tectonics.