"WILLIAM ARTHUR PARKS 1868 - 1936" ~ Toronto
N 43° 40.049 W 079° 23.633
17T E 629486 N 4836195
Quick Description: Located at the east side of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/26/2009 7:21:39 AM
Waymark Code: WM7H4X
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Long Description:WILLIAM ARTHUR PARKS 1868 - 1936
The first Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology.
Parks was born in Hamilton and educated at the University of
Toronto, from which he received a Doctorate in 1900. Initially
known as an expert on "stromatoporoids", a unique group of
intertebrate fossils, he later turned his attention to the study of
vertebrate palaeontology. The expeditions Parks organized to the
Canadian and American West between 1918 and 1935 provided most of
the material for the Museum's extensive world-recognized dinosaur
collection. As Professor and, from 1922 - 35, Head of Geology
Department at the University of Toronto he taught geology and
palaeontology and produced many publications, notable among them
being his authoritative five-volume guide, "The Building and
Ornamental Stones of Canada"