 Outer view of the entrance of the museum The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University located at 859 Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath. It is rumoured that it was part of an effort to ensure that Sir William Dawson would not leave the university. It houses collections of interest to ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mineralogy/geology. The collections were started by some of the same individuals who founded the Smithsonian and Royal Ontario Museum collections. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 66 KB) Summary McGill University, Red Path Museum (outer view). ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 66 KB) Summary McGill University, Red Path Museum (outer view). ...
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A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...
McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational, international university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
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Sir John William Dawson, KCMG , FRSC (October 13, 1820 – November 19, 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. ...
Ethnology (greek ethnos: (non-greek, barbarian) people) is a genre of anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the folklore, beliefs and practices of different societies. ...
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A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ...
Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ...
Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. ...
The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ...
The mosaic ceiling of the rotunda entrance to the museum. ...
It is the oldest building built specifically to be a museum in North America. Although small, its striking architecture is an important example of neo-classical design. It has figured as a set, both inside and out, for movies and commercials. (See Barnum (1986) starring Burt Lancaster, Eye of the Beholder, (1999) starring Ashley Judd). World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
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Geology (mineralogy) collection Five collections, containing approximately 16,000 specimens from all over the world, are identified by their initial letters: - 'D' Doell collection for Dr. Donald Doell, a physician who contributed many of the more recent material in the collection.
- 'F' Ferrier collection for Walter Frederick Ferrier, famous mining engineer who contributed this pre-eminent collection of minerals from many classic locations.
- 'J' Jeffrey collection for Jeffrey de Fourestier, mineralogist and former volunteer at the museum.
- 'SC' Shirley Collection
- 'NS' New System collection for the general collection catalogue. This collection contains the main body of specimens including the collection of the former Natural History Society of Montreal and specimens from the collection of Lord Strathcona.
Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865-1950) was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer. ...
Jeffrey de Fourestier (1960-) claims to be a modern renaissance man, lexicographer, mineralogist, historian, who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a German immigrant family of Huguenot ancestry. ...
Donald Alexander Smith (August 6, 1820-January 21, 1914) was a Scotch-Québécois fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician in Canada. ...
Paleontology collection The museum's important collection of fossils owes much of its beginning to Sir William Dawson who provided not only many of the fossils of plants from his native Nova Scotia, but procured many important specimens from around the world. Dr. Thomas Clark, for many years up until his death, was a fixture at the museum and was renowned for his pioneering work on fossils from the Burgess Shale, some of the oldest known anywhere. William Dawson may refer to: Sir John William Dawson, a Canadian geologist. ...
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Thomas Clark is the name of a number of notable people: Thomas Clark, American yeoman Thomas Clark, British chemist This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
The Burgess shale (named after Mount Burgess, near where the shale was found) is a black shale found high up in the Canadian Rockies in Yoho National Park near the town of Field, British Columbia. ...
Ethnology collection The ethnological and archaeological collection is one of the oldest in North America and began with Sir William Dawson's collection. It received further material from the Natural History Society of Montreal. It now has over 17,000 items from Africa, ancient Egypt, Oceania, paleolithic Europe and South America. The collection of First Nations artifacts that were once part of the collection now are housed in the McCord Museum in Montreal. Sir John William Dawson, KCMG , FRSC (October 13, 1820 – November 19, 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. ...
The McCord Museum (in French, Musée McCord) is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. ...
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