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west. Many other distinctions, which cannot be 

 enumerated here, fell to his lot, and he had won for 

 himself the esteem and confidence of his fellow- 

 countrymen in all parts of the Dominion. Nowhere 

 was he more beloved than in British Columbia — the 

 province in which he had done so much of his best 

 work, and in which, he sometimes said to the writer, 

 he would like to spend his last days. 



After the Toronto meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion, in 1897, he accompanied a party of the members 

 on a trip across the continent, and all were struck with 

 the warmth of the welcome everywhere accorded to 

 him. "Among the many distinguished visitors," 

 writes the Victoria Colonist, " by whose presence 

 Victoria has been honored during the past few days, 

 none holds a higher or more deserved place in the 

 esteem of Canadians than George M. Dawson. In 

 one sense he is the discoverer of Canada, for the Geo- 

 logical Survey, of which he has been the chief, has 

 done more than all other agencies combined to make 

 the potentialities of the Dominion known to the world. 

 He has been engaged in the work so long that he can 

 look back over it with the profound satisfaction which 

 comes from the knowledge that his judgment on 

 points of extreme interest and value has been justified 

 by events. The development of Kootenay, the 

 hydraulic mines of Cariboo, and the gold mines in the 

 Yukon are all foretold in the interesting pages of Dr. 

 Dawson's earlier reports. Therefore, when we find 

 in the voluminous products of his pen, wherein the 

 results of his observations are recorded, anticipations 

 of great mineral development in parts of the province 

 that are as yet unexplored, we feel almost as if such 

 development were guaranteed. A careful observer, 



