Digby Johns McLAREN

Background

McLAREN, Digby was born on December 11, 1919 in N. Ireland. Son of James and Louie (nee Kinsey) McLaren.

Education

Sedbergh School, Yorks., Queens’ College, Cambridge, and University of Michigan.

Career

Director Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology' 1967-1973. Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology. Department, of Energy, Mines and Resources 1980-1981, Senior Scientific Adviser 1980-1984.

Professor Department, of Geology, University of Ottawa 1981-1988. Chairman Institute Geological Correlation Prog., UNESCO/IUGS 1976-1980, adviser in earth science to Director-General of UNESCO since 1980. Foreign Association, United States National Academy, of Sciences.

President Geological Society of America 1982. Chair, and Organiser of two Dahlem Conferences (Berlin) on Resources and World Development 1986. President Royal Society of Canada 1987-1990.

Honorary Doctor of Science (Ottawa) 1980. Professional Institute 1979. Leopold von Buch.

Works

• Other Work

  • Resources and World Development (editor) 1987, Planet Under Stress (editor) 1990. Papers, bulletins, memoirs and maps on regional geology, western and Arctic Canada, paleontology, time, historical geology, evolution, extinction, etc.

Interests

• Gardening, orchid culture, skiing, music.

Connections

Married Phyllis Matkin 1942.

Father:

James

Mother:

Louie (nee Kinsey) McLaren

Spouse:

Phyllis Matkin