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MEMORIALS

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JOHN LAWRENCE CARR 1922–2006

John Lawrence Carr passed away in Calgary, Alberta, on September 4, 2006. He is survived by his wife Bertha, two sons and daughters-in-law (Richard and Bonnie Carr, and Douglas Carr and his wife, Margo Glover), as well as four grandchildren (Diane, Michael, Samuel, and Benjamin Carr).

John was born in Edmonton, Alberta on June 15, 1922, the youngest of four children born to Frederick Stephen Carr and his wife, Laura Moyer. John’s father was a school teacher but shortly after John was born, he became a school inspector and the family moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta. John attended public and high school in Medicine Hat before enrolling as a student at the University of Alberta in September, 1939. John graduated with a B.Sc. in geology in 1944. In the summer of 1943, John assisted Charles R. Stelck in geological mapping in the Mackenzie Mountains near Norman Wells, N.W.T., as part of the Canol Project. During the summers 1944 – 46, John worked for the Research Council of Alberta, mapping coal seams and associated sedimentary rock strata in the foothills of southwestern Alberta as an M.Sc. project under the supervision of Professor John A. Allan. The results of this project were published by the Research Council of Alberta as "Geology of Highwood and Elbow Area, Alberta" (Allan and Carr, 1947).

Beginning in the fall of 1946, John worked as a geologist at a gold mine at Belle Terre, Quebec, and shortly after the Leduc oil discovery in 1947, former University . . . [Full Text of this Article]