George Sherwood Hume (March 1, 1893 – November 24, 1965) was a

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geologist. Born in Milton,

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, Hume was a graduate of the

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. After serving in

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, he received a PhD from

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in 1920. He joined the

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and became its Chief in 1947. He was later Director-General of Scientific Services in the Department of Mines and Resources. After retiring in 1956, he worked at Westcoast Transmission in Calgary. He was president of the Geological Association of Canada from 1952 to 1953, president of the Royal Society of Canada from 1955 to 1956, and president of the

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from 1956 to 1957. He was a Freemason and a member of Civil Service Lodge No. 148 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

References

University of Calgary Libraries Special Collections Division Occasional Paper No. 10
* 1893 births 1965 deaths 20th-century Canadian geologists Geological Survey of Canada personnel Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canadian Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Milton, Ontario University of Toronto alumni Yale University alumni Presidents of the Geological Society of America {{geologist-stub