The Museum in 1910 
From 1880 to 1910 the Museum was housed, together with the 
offices and laboratories of the Geological Survey, in the former Claren- 
don Hotel building, which still stands on the northeast corner of the 
intersection of Sussex and George streets. This building soon became 
Fig. 1. John Macoun (1832-1920). First Biologist of the Geological Survey 
of Canada and its Museum. His studies of the Canadian prairies were the basis 
for their subsequent settlement. 
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