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[[Sir John William Dawson]] , known best as "William", was born in 1820 in Pictou, [[Nova Scotia]] and raised Presbyterian. He and his family were in fellowship with the PB in the earliest days at [[Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC|Natural History Hall]]. 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 is credited in Encyclopedia Britannica for transforming McGill from "an understaffed, insignificant school into a progressive university with a worldwide reputation." He averaged writing ten scientific papers a year, and helped found the MontrealNormal School, [[Quebec]]serving as its principal for thirteen years. It has been understood that he He made numerous contributions to paleobotany and his family were Canadian geology, including discovering the earliest (in 1859) known land plant, Psilophyton, in fellowship with the PB Devonian strata (dating 360-408 million years ago). He died in 1899 in the earliest days at Montreal, [[Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC|Natural History HallQuebec]] and his wife retained this connection late in life.
=Education=
* ''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://books.google.com/books?id=ibsRAAAAIAAJ Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada]''; London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1871.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=IQja8B252sMC The Bible and Science]''; London: Richard D. Dickinson, 1875.
** Six lectures delivered at the Madison Ave. Presby. Church, New York.
* ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/KSUOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1 Fifty Years of Scientific & Educational Work in Canada]: Being Autobiographical Notes by Sir William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S.'', ed. by Rankine Dawson, M.A., M.D., M.R C.S.E., Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1901.
** Sir Dawson's autobiography, published post-humously by his sons.
* ''[https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-William-Dawson Encyclopedia Britannica bio]''
* ''[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dawson_john_william_12E.html Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
