John William Dawson: Faith, Hope, and Science

by Susan Sheets-Pyenson

Dawson was born and raised in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the many sandstone and coal formations provided fertile ground for his first scientific explorations, which culminated in the publication of Acadian Geology. He became principal of McGill University in 1855 and over the next forty years worked unceasingly to transform McGill from a "tiny, poverty-stricken provincial school" into a scientific institution of the highest rank. He was the only person...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077351368X
• ISBN13: 9780773513686
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages