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Burton, Alex

  • CA-BC-BA031
  • Person
  • fl. 1950s-

Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

  • CA-QC-GSC-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1842-

The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; French: Commission géologique du Canada (CGC)) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country, developing Canada's natural resources, and protecting the environment. A branch of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada, the GSC is the country's oldest scientific agency and was one of its first government organizations. In September 1841, the Province of Canada legislature passed a resolution that authorized the sum of £1,500 sterling be granted to the government for the estimated expense of performing a geological survey of the province. In 1842, the Geological Survey of Canada was formed to fulfill this request. William Edmond Logan was in Montreal at the time and made it known that he was interested in participating in this survey. Gaining recommendations from prominent British scientists, Logan was appointed the first GSC director on April 14, 1842. Four months later, Logan arrived in Kingston, ON to compile the existing body of knowledge of Canada's geology. In the spring of 1843, Logan established the GSC's headquarters in Montreal, QC (in his brother's warehouse and then in a rented house on Great St. James Street (now Saint-Jacques Street). One of the prominent cartographers and the chief topographical draughtsman was Robert Barlow, who began his work in 1855. Chemist T. Sterry Hunt joined not long after, and the Survey added paleontological capability in 1856 with the arrival of Elkanah Billings. After Aylesworth Perry was appointed as acting librarian in 1881, he prepared the catalogue of reference works on geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry, and natural history. George Mercer Dawson became a staff member in 1875, progressed to assistant director in 1883, and finally to director of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1895. In 1856, the GSC established a public museum in its Montréal headquarters. There, it exhibited geological, archaeological, ethnographic and biological materials. Transferred, along with the GSC, to Ottawa in 1881, the museum eventually gave rise to the four national museum corporations that operate in the National Capital Region, including the Canadian Museum of History. The Geological Survey of Canada first began allowing women to conduct fieldwork in the early 1950s. Dr. Alice Wilson, the first of these women, lobbied for the inclusion of paleontologist Frances Wagner shortly afterward. Around this same time, the GSC employed a third woman Dr. Helen Belyea.

Black Tusk Helicopter Inc.

  • CA-BC-BLA-020
  • Corporate body
  • [fl. 2000s?]-

Back Tusk Helicopters Inc. is a helicopter charter and tour company based in Squamish. The company offers helicopter charters for tourism, heli-skiing, aerial construction, forestry, firefighting, films, weddings, and more.

Western Canadian Heli-Sports Ltd.

  • CA-BC-WES-002
  • Person
  • [fl. 1980s-2000s?]-2010

Western Canadian Heli-Sports Ltd. was a heli-skiing and heli-boarding operator in British Columbia active in [the 1980s-2000s?]. It ceased operations in 2010 and the company changed its name to Blackcomb Leasing Ltd..

Pemberton Soaring Centre

  • CA-BC-PEM-002
  • Person
  • 1993-2013

Pemberton Soaring Centre is a company based in Pemberton which offers glider flight tours, glider rentals, and glider lessons. The company was founded in 1993 by pilots Peter Timm and Rudolf (Rudy) Rozsypalek, a Czechoslovak-Canadian, and Rudy's girlfriend, Tracey Rozsypalek (nee McCutcheon). The couple lived in a mobile home at the airport for the next 11 years. For an office, they pitched a large tent, and the couple married at the airport in 1995, going on to have two children (Thomas and Troy). Timm and Rudy bought more gliders, more planes to tow them, and hired more pilots. In the off-season, they skied Whistler. In 2004, the family moved into a house in a nearby subdivision in Pemberton. By then, Rudy had taken over the business from Timm and built a large steel hanger, called the Pemberton Airport. On the morning of June 29 2013, Rudy took a tourist from India up for a glider flight. At 12:19 p.m., Rudy’s glider and a Cessna 150 carrying two people and a dog collided in mid-air. Debris rained down on the campsite below, and the crash had no survivors, with Rudy passing away at age 50. Since Rudy's death, his wife, Tracey, was owner and operator of Pemberton Soaring Centre - the company ceased operations in 2013.

Baxter Tours Inc.

  • CA-BC-BAX-001
  • Corporate body
  • [fl. 2000s?]-2012

Baxter Tours Inc. was a tour operator in British Columbia active in the [2000s?] which changed its name to Dog My Rewards Inc. in 2012.

Mountain Heli-Sports Inc.

  • CA-BC-MOU-001
  • Corporate body
  • fl. [1990s?]-2003

Mountain Heli-Sports was a heli-skiing and heli-boarding operator active in British Columbia from [the 1990s?] to 2003.

Whistler Heli-Hiking Ltd.

  • CA-BC-WHH-001
  • Corporate body
  • fl. [1990s?]-2013

Whistler Heli-Hiking Ltd. was a heli-hiking operator based in Whistler active from the [1990s?] to 2013.

BC Powder Guides

  • CA-BC-BCP-002
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1980s

BC Powder Guides was a heli-skiing operation active in the Whistler area and Coast Range in the early 1980s.

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