Alice E. Wilson’s Scientific Papers, Maps, Field Trip Guide and Children’s Book on Geology - Part 2

On October 18, 2018   the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada paid tribute Alice Evelyn Wilson as a trailblazing scientist during a special ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Nature unveiling the following plaque commemorating her as a person of national historic significance.

The Minister’s  background material mentions that Alice Evelyn Wilson was “the first female geologist hired by the Geological Survey of Canada, the first Canadian woman to be admitted to the Geological Society of America, and the first female Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.” Further information to support the designation of the plaque can be found at:   
       
https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2018/10/government-of-canada-recognizes-national-historic-significance-of-geologist-alice-evelyn-wilson.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2018/10/alice-evelyn-wilson-1881-1964.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Wilson

https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1415-e.html

Sarjeant, William A.S. — "Alice Wilson, first woman geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada   https://www.jstor.org/stable/24138603?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://doi.org/10.17704/eshi.12.2.m712pvg107v21804

The background material issued by the Minister's department mentions that Alice E. Wilson “prepared detailed reference maps of some 14,250  square km  of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowlands”.    That point is perhaps better made by the following index map showing the geologic maps issued by the Geological Survey of Canada where the Paleozoic geology was mapped by Alice E. Wilson.

Christopher P. Brett
Ottawa