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MEMORIAL

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Jack with an ammonite find on northern Axel Heiberg Island, 1983
NEIL JOHN (JACK) MCMILLAN 1925–2006

Jack McMillan, a CSPG past president and honorary member, died on November 7, 2006, after a long, frustrating battle with Parkinson’s disease. His funeral was on Remembrance Day, November11, which would have been his 81st birthday.

Jack was born in Souris, Manitoba, and grew up during the Depression era. He graduated from the University of Manitoba and went on to obtain an M.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan, followed by a Ph.D. at the University of Kansas where classmates included Ray Thorsteinsson, Dick Procter and (the late) Owen Hughes, who became lifetime friends and sometime colleagues. As a newly minted Ph.D., Jack joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a permanent field officer in 1954 and he was assigned to Operation Franklin. This great 1955, helicopter-supported, field project was charged with mapping and assessing the petroleum potential of Canada’s Arctic Islands, a vast, frozen terra incognita. Jack mapped the geology on several islands and is best known for his legendary walk across northern Axel Heiberg Island. Jack . . . [Full Text of this Article]