John Macoun (17 April 1831 – 18 June 1920) was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist. Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third...
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prominent figure advocating homesteading in the North West was botanist John Macoun. He undertook expeditions alongside Sir Sanford Fleming in the 1880s...
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Macoun may refer to: People Jamie Macoun (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player John Macoun (1831–1920), Irish-Canadian naturalist Franz Macoun (1881–1951)...
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Neomacounia (redirect from Macoun's Shining Moss)
or Macoun's shining moss, is an extinct moss that was found only in a small area of Ontario, and the sole species in the genus Neomacounia. Macoun's shining...
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The John Macoun Marsh is a small wetland located on the property of the Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Maintained and protected by the...
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climbing Mount Macoun. Mount Macoun was named in 1888 by mountaineers Reverend William S. Green and Rev. Henry Swanzy to honor John Macoun (1831-1920),...
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Upper Fort Garry to Fort Edmonton. Horetzky and one of the authors, John Macoun, parted from the group to survey a more northern route through the Peace...
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Canada. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6567-0. Nils, John Macoun; Kindberg, Conrad (1883). "Catalogue of Canadian plants". Geological Survey...
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colonists was made by botanist John Macoun in 1887 led by local Indigenous guide Qualicum Tom and his son James Thomas. Macoun was a botanist to the Geological...
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Government Services Canada. Conservation Council (CESCC). 2001. Nils, John Macoun; Conrad Kindberg (1883), Catalogue of Canadian plants, Geological Survey...
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Macoun (2016 population: 269) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36 and Census Division No...
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traders. The community developed around an earlier Dene settlement. John Macoun, who was travelling the fur trade route from Methye Portage to Lac Île-à-la-Crosse...
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Jamie Neil Macoun (born August 17, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over 1,000 games in the National Hockey League...
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Northern division. II. Report of Southern division,, OCLC 11984074 (1921). John Macoun, 1832 [i.e. 1831]-1920, OCLC 53698027 (1932). Methods of collecting and...
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Wild mammals of North America (2nd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-7416-5 Nils, John Macoun; Conrad Kindberg (1883), Catalogue of Canadian...
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from the museum's collection originated from the collecting efforts of John Macoun, who was hired as the museum's first biologist by the Geological Survey...
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government-sponsored survey of the oil sands was initiated in 1875 by John Macoun, and in 1883, G. C. Hoffman of the Geological Survey of Canada tried...
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Survey of Canada Mary MacArthur – botanist, cytologist, horticulturalist John Macoun (1831–1920) – botanist Tak Wah Mak (born 1946) – immunologist who discovered...
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The CPR may have placed too much reliance on a report from naturalist John Macoun, who had crossed the prairies at a time of very high rainfall and had...
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1835) John Macoun, Irish-born naturalist (b. 1831) June 20 Marie-Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer and politician (b. 1839) John Grigg,...
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by Edward Potts in 1882. It was collected on Sable Island in 1899 by John Macoun, a biologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, and given the name...
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grass and eelgrass, documented by the renowned botanist and explorer, John Macoun, after he retired as curator of the National Museum in 1912. Many non-native...
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government-sponsored survey of the oil sands was initiated in 1875 by John Macoun of the Geological Survey also noted the presence of the oil sands. Later...
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Losina-Losinskaja John Claudius Loudon Alice Lounsberry Elias Lönnrot Hedvig Lovén Hans Christian Lyngbye Elizabeth McClintock William McCalla John Macoun Peter MacOwan...
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Mounted Police in the Canadian north Malaher 1984. John Macoun; George Monro Grant; Alexander Begg; John Campbell McLagan (1882). Manitoba and the great...
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David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (died 1903) April 17 – John Macoun, naturalist (died 1920) May 1 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice...
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first confirmed ascent of the mountain was made in 1885 by John Macoun and James M. Macoun. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1931 when approved...
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Everett Baker and Irish-Canadian naturalist John Macoun, with the Geological Survey of Canada. John Macoun had camped extensively in the area in the 1880s...
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industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b. 1851) June 18 – John Macoun, naturalist (b. 1831) June 27 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author...
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flora. His work was inspired by the Laurentian herbarium of the botanist John Macoun, as well as physiographic studies by geologists William Edmond Logan...
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