Late Classic Finds at Baking Pot, British Honduras. William R. BullardJr. and Mary Ricketson Bullard. Art and Archaeology Occasional Papers No. 8, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, 1965. 74 pp., 17 figs., 23 pls. $3.00.

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-593
Author(s):  
T. Patrick Culbert
Keyword(s):  
Late Classic ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
British Honduras ◽  
Baking Pot

William Arthur Parks, 1868-1936

1938 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 260-263
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
International Nickel Company ◽  
The University ◽  
Cleveland Ohio

William Arthur Parks, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology, and until recently Professor and Head of the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto, was born at Hamilton, Ontario , 11 December, 1868. He was the son of George Dyer Parks and Kate Snelgrove, formerly of Exeter, England. His early youth was spent at Hamilton and afterwards at Bowmanville where he attended the High School from which he matriculated in 1886. Two years later, after having some training and experience in teaching, he entered the University of Toronto , where he gained various scholastic successes and graduated in Natural Sciences in 1892. His first appointment was as chemist at Sudbury and Cleveland, Ohio, to the Canadian Copper Company, which has now developed in to the International Nickel Company. In 1893 he joined the staff of the University of Toronto as Geologist, and devoted the remainder of his life until his retirement just before his death to the service of that University. He rose from grade to grade, and on the retirement of Professor A. P. Coleman in 1922 he was made Head of the Department.

The Iron Creek Meteorite: The Curious History of the Manitou Stone and the Claim for its Repatriation

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-175
Author(s):  
Howard Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Red River ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Canada's Iron Creek meteorite, a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron, was long venerated by the First Nations in Alberta as their sacred Manitou Stone, but it was taken without authority from them by Methodist missionaries in 1866. That began the meteorite's long odyssey, as it was transferred first to the Methodist Mission in Victoria (now Pakan) Alberta; then to the Red River Mission in Winnipeg, Manitoba; then to the Wesleyan Methodist Church's Mission Rooms in Toronto, Ontario; then to Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario; then to the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario; then to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; and finally to the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum) in Edmonton. In recent years, a First Nations movement to repatriate the meteorite to a place near its original find site has been initiated. As of now, the meteorite remains on display at the Royal Alberta Museum's Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, where it is a prized showpiece. The present paper explores the curious history and cultural significance of this fabled meteorite, its long odyssey, the issues surrounding the claims for its repatriation, the Royal Alberta Museum's present policy, and a possible way forward.

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