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John Macoun
Born17 April 1831
Magheralin, County Down, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died18 June 1920(1920-06-18) (aged 89)
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Resting placeBeechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupationnaturalist

John Macoun (17 April 1831 – 18 June 1920) was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist.

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John Macoun

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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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Macoun marsh

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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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Neomacounia

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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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Mount Macoun

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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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Mount Arrowsmith

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The first recorded ascent by colonists was made by botanist John Macoun in 1887. Macoun was a botanist to the Geological Survey of Canada. Mount Waddington...

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Buffalo Narrows

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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 Macoun

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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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Geography of Canada

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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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Wildlife of Canada

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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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Athabasca oil sands

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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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Flora of Canada

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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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1920

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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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Charles Horetzky

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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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Lists of Canadians

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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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Mark Messier

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Flames on December 26. Messier was retaliating for having been boarded by Macoun earlier in the game, but the NHL ruled that he had instigated the fight...

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History of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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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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Racekiela ryderi

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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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Avalanche Mountain

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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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Canadian Museum of Nature

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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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List of botanists

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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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History of the Petroleum industry in Alberta

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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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Rudolph Martin Anderson

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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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Magheralin

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Dolling" (1851–1902), was born in Magheralin. John Macoun (1831–1920), a Canadian naturalist born, to James Macoun and Anne Jane Nevin and who emigrated to...

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List of people on the postage stamps of Canada

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MacDonald (1973) John A. Macdonald (1927, 1972) Alexander Mackenzie (1952) Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1970) James F. MacLeod (1986) John Macoun (1981) Agnes...

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