Professor Edmunds was a pioneer in working out the geology of the Lloydminster oil area, as his biography on the Heavy Oil Science Centre 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 [at the Barr Colony Heritage and Cultural Centre] 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