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[[Sir John William Dawson]] was born in 1820 in Pictou, [[Nova Scotia]] and raised Presbyterian. He was appointed Nova Scotia's first superintendent of education (1850-1853). Then from 1855-1893, he served as principal of [[McGill University]]. He died in 1899 in Montreal, [[Quebec]]. It is understood that he and his family were in fellowship with the PB in the earliest days at [[Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC|Natural History Hall]].
=Education=
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FSA-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Air-Breathers of the Coal Period]: A Descriptive Account of the Remains of Land Animals Found in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia'', Montreal: Dawson, Brothers, Great St. James Street: 1863.
* ''[https://archive.org/details/storyofearthman00dawsrich/page/n9/mode/2up The Story of The Earth and Man]'', 1870. ** Eleven editions.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=R_puiNKFTnMC Handbook of Zoology], Vol. 1: Invertebrata. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1870.
* ''Notes on the Post-pliocene of Canada'', 1870.
** based on a series of papers in the Canadian Naturalist. Some of his notes were also included in 1863 for Logan's ''Geology of Canada''.
* ''[https://archive.org/details/geologicalhistor00daws The Geological History of Plants]''. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1A68AAAAIAAJ Handbook of Geology for the use of Canadian Students''. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1889.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KMD-NeWUVNgC Modern Ideas of Evolution as related to Revelation and Science]''. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1890.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=t5_Tuz62jNMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The Ice Age in Canada]'', Montreal: William V. Dawson, 1893.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=McALAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Meeting-Place of Geology and History]''. New York & Chicago & Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1894.