Biografía
His parent emigrated to Winnipeg about 1910.
He was a Civil Engineer and Dominion Land Surveyor.
He was Municipal Engineer in Flin Flon Manitoba before the Second World War. After his army service in 1956 he served as Assistant Chief Engineer on Construction of the Dew Line.
In 1955 he received a Doctorate in Geography with a thesis on the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Servicio militar
He was appointed as a Lieutenant (Royal Canadian Engineers) c1940. Served in the Antarctic 1943-46 in Operation Tabourin (Naval Party 475) to safeguard British Antarctic sovereignty becoming Commanding Officer in 1944.
In 1947 he participated in a survey of the Queen Elizabeth Islands as Canadian Observer in a US Icebreaker Task Force on loan to the US Army Corps of Engineers.
He established two weather stations.
He retired from the Canadian Army in 1952.
Lugares nombrados
Mount Taylor (Hope Bay) Antarctica;
