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Willet Green Miller fonds
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Fonds
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1893-1922 (Creation)
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- Miller, Willet Green
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0.16 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Born at Norfolk County, Ontario in 1867, Willet Green Miller was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1890) and later he held junior appointments in the University of Toronto, Queen's University and at Chicago, Harvard and Heidelberg Universities. In 1896 he entered the employ of the Government of Ontario as a geologist and in 1902 he was appointed provincial geologist. He had a great deal to do with the development of mining in Ontario in the period that followed. He died at Toronto in 1925.
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The fonds consists of correspondence concerning his career and the discovery of Corundum, news clippings, a notebook of a trip in 1893 and memoranda concerning minerals in Ontario.
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Library, Department of Geology, Queen's University - 1968
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- English
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1060
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Open
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Public domain
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No further accruals are expected