On July 5, i960, the Chief of the Pish and Wildlife Branch, Dr. 

 W.J.K. Harkness, died. Although he had not been In the best of health, 

 his pa&slng was sudden and unexpected, and an enormous loss to the 

 Department smd to fisheries and wildlife management everywhere. 



A committee appointed during the winter recommended that the 

 Fisheries Research Laboratory at Lake Opeongo, in Algonquin Park, be 

 renamed The Harkness Laboratory of Fisheries Research, and a plaque be 

 placed there with the following wording: 



William John Knox Harkness 1896 - 196O 

 Associate Professor of Limnology and 

 Director of the Ontario Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory , Department of Zoology, University 

 of Toronto, 1924-19^6; Chief , Fish and 

 Wildlife Branch , Ontario Department of Lands 

 and Forests , 19^6 - 1960 . 



After many years spent in carrying out and 

 directing fisheries research and in training 

 fisheries scientists. Dr. Harkness under- 

 j took the direction of fisheries and wildlife 



management in the Ontario Department of 

 Lands and Forests. His memory is perpetuated 

 by the research completed and published under 

 his direction, by the devotion and achieve- 

 ments of the men whcMii he trained, by the 

 fisheries and wildlife management program 

 - of this Province and by the intelligent 



public interest in fish and wildlife which he 

 aroused in all those whom he met. This 

 laboratory, which bears his name, was estab- 

 lished by the Department of Lands and Forests 

 in 1935, when he was invited by the Department 

 to make Algonquin Park the centre of the field 

 work of the Ontario Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory. 



