Claude Garton Admired For Work In Botany
- Publication
- Lakehead Living, 8 Apr 1987
Description
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Description
- celebrated eightieth birthday ; planning trip to Moss Island near Nipigon Bay if health permits ; recently honoured at dinner to raise funds to preserve Mission Island marshes ; most renowned botanist in Northwestern Ontario ; Claude is influential figure in Nothern Ontario says professor of biology Alastair Macdonald at Lakehead University ; arrived in Port Arthur in 1928 ; principal at Current River School for over 30 years ; stint in army ; retirement in 1966 ; building rechristened Claude Garton Public School ; formation of first Junior Naturalist Club in 40's ; charter member of Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Club ; named honorary professor of biology at Lakehead University in 1966 ; his private herbarium was donated to LU and he became curator ; awarded honorary doctor of science degree from LU in 1979
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- Full text available in Newspaper Clipping File
File subject: LF - Thunder Bay - Biography - Garton, Claude
Full text available on microfilm - Date of Publication
- 8 Apr 1987
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- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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