Robinson, J. Lewis

ROBINSON, J. Lewis, geographer (b 9 July 1918, Leamington, ON; d 19 July 2008, Vancouver). After graduating from Syracuse Univ and Clark Univ in Worcester, MA, he became the federal government's first professional geographer when he was hired by the mines department in 1943. In 1946 he came to VANCOUVER to establish a geography program in UBC's department of geology and geography. He served as founding chair of a separate geography department from 1958 until 1968. The leading BC geographer of...

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