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Another Tribute to Professor Edmunds
| Professor Edmunds was a pioneer
in working out the geology of the Lloydminster oil area, as his biography
on the OTS web site points out. He has a number of publications about the
Lloydminster area, starting in 1929, and he supervised many graduate
students who wrote about western Canadian oil geology until 1965 and he
influenced even students who published after his death. He was an
important consultant to the oil industry. Indeed, without Edmunds work,
development of the Lloydminster heavy oils could have been delayed for
many years.
Therefore, in my recent visit to the museum I
anticipated to see some recognition of Edmunds work in the geology
section. I looked all over but failed to find any mention of Edmunds or
the University of Saskatchewan Geology Department, although several other
people are mentioned in other displays. Would it be possible to have some
mention of Professor Edmunds at an appropriate place in the museum? There
are a lake and a coulee in the Lloydminster area named in Edmunds honor,
but I think their connection with the University and the oil industry is
not obvious to many people.
The museum is really a gem and is not sufficiently
known in this province. I hope you can keep it functioning for many years
in these hard financial times.
Sincerely,
Don Gendzwill, Professor Emeritus,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Saskatchewan
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