First Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology - Toronto, Ontario
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William Arthur Parks was the first Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology.
Waymark Code: WMHEVP
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/02/2013
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This Ontario Provincial Plaque is located at 100 Queen's Park and reads:
"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"
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"William Arthur Parks (11 December 1868 – 3 October 1936) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist, following in the tradition of Lawrence Lambe.
Parks was born in Hamilton, Ontario. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1892, Parks joined the University of Toronto's staff, where he taught geology, paleontology, and mineralogy. He earned a PhD in 1900. He died in Toronto, Ontario in 1936."
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