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A Biographical Sketch of George Mercer Dawson

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Dawson City, Yukon, was named in George Dawson's honor after he in 1887 explored and mapped northern British Columbia and the headwaters of the Yukon River, land previously unknown except for First Nations accounts and those of a few prospectors.

In 1901, French Canadian archaeologist Henri-Marc Ami (1858 –1931) published a 30-page life sketch of his friend Dawson.

Ami had high praise for Dawson, noting that "not only as a geologist, but also as an ethnologist and naturalist Dr. Dawson was we...