A. P. Coleman Exhibition

1852: Arthur Philemon Coleman born April 4 at Lachute, Canada East, the son of the Reverend Francis Coleman, a Methodist Minister and Emmeline Adams Coleman. Arthur's father was born in Cornwall, England, and carne to Canada in 1833. His mother was a member of the Adams family who carne to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. Coleman has four siblings: Albert Evander (b. 1847), Lucius Quincy (b. 1854), Rufus Adams (b. 1856) and Helena Jane (b. 1860).

1872: Enters Arts Course at Victoria University, Cobourg. Coleman helps to pay for his studies by working at Brookhurst Academy. This college for female students functioned in co-operation with Victoria College, it was headed by Coleman’s aunt Mary Electa Adams.

1876: B.A. from Victoria University, Cobourg, receives the Prince of Wales Gold Medal. Studies under Eugene Haanel who later becomes Director of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines, Canada, Ottawa.

1876-1879: Teaches at Cobourg Collegiate Institute.

1880: M.A. Degree from Victoria University, Cobourg.

1881 - 1882: Ph.D. from Breslau University, Germany.

1882-1891: Professor of Natural History and Geology at Victoria

(1882: Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is founded.)

1883: Purchases Pinehurst Island, in the Thousand Islands, neighbour to Eugene Haanel

(1891: Ontario Bureau of Mines established.)

1891 April – July: Coleman is studying Geology at the University of Freiberg.

1891 – 1892: Submits reports for the Ontario Bureau of Mines including a review of Ores at the Chicago World Fair.

1891-1901: Professor of Assaying and Metallurgy at the School of Practical Sciences, University of Toronto.

1892: Studies Geology at the University of Freiberg, Germany.

1894-1909: Appointed Geologist and Mineralogist for the Bureau of Mines, Government of Ontario, works for the OBM during the summer months.

(1898: Canadian Mining Institute established.)

1900: Elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

1901-1922: Professor of Geology, Faculty of Arts, University of Toronto. Academic interests focus increasingly on glaciation.

1902-1903: Elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute of Toronto.

1905 – 1906: Discovers Precambrian glaciation in the Cobalt area.

1910 – 1914: Elected President, Alpine Club of Canada, also held the offices of Chairman of the Toronto Section, Eastern Vice- President and Honorary President.

1910: Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, England; receives the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, England.

1911: Publishes Canadian Rockies: New & Old Trails.

1913: Receives the LL.D degree from Queen's University, Kingston; elected President of the Geological Section of the Royal Society of Canada. The Nickel Industry with Special Reference to the Sudbury Region, Ontario is published by the Canadian Department of Mines, it includes Coleman’s geological map of the Sudbury region.

1914: Appointed Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology, Toronto.

1915: Elected President of the Geological Society of America, U.S.A.

1919-1922: Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Toronto.

1921: Elected President of the Royal Society of Canada.

1922: Received the LL.D degree from the University of Western Ontario, London; Degree of D.Sc. from the University of Toronto; Retired from University of Toronto as Professor Emeritus, also retires from the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology. Co-author with A.A. Parks of the text book, Elementary Geology with Special Reference to Canada.

1926: Publishes Ice Ages, Recent and Ancient.

1928: Awarded the Flavelle Medal by the Royal Society of Canada.

1931-1934: Geologist for the Department of Mines, Government of Ontario, Toronto.

1932: Receives the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, England.

1936: Receives the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America.

1939: February 26 dies at Toronto. February 28 funeral service at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Interned Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

1941: Posthumous publication, The Last Million Years: a History of the Pleistocene in North America, edited by George F. Kay

1852: Canada: Québec
A.P. Coleman is born in Lachute, Canada East.

1872 - 1880: Canada: Ontario, Québec

1880: Canada: Ontario
Germany
United States: New York

1881: Germany, Arctic Norway

1882: Germany

1883 : Canada: Ontario
Italy
Lapland (Sweden and Finland)

1884: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia

1885 - 1887: Canada: Ontario

1888: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia

1889 - 1890: Canada: Northern Ontario, Manitoba

1891: Canada: Ontario
Germany
United States: Illinois

1892 - 1893: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario

1894: Canada: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Eastern Ontario

1895: Canada: Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario

1896: Canada: Ontario

1897: Canada: Northern Ontario

1898: Canada: Ontario
England

1899: Canada: Northwestern Ontario
United States: Minnesota, Michigan

1900: Canada: Ontario
France
Germany

1901: Canada: Northern Ontario
United States: Washington, Yukon

1902: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Eastern Ontario

1903: Canada: Eastern Ontario, Northern Ontario
United States: New York, Missouri

1904: Canada: Northern Ontario

1905: Canada: Northern Ontario, Québec
South Africa

1906: Canada: Ontario, Northern Ontario
Mexico

1907 : Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Northern Ontario
Mexico
United States: New Mexico

1908: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Northern Ontario
United States: Arizona

1909: Canada : Northern Ontario
England
Italy

1910: Canada: Ontario
England
France
Italy
Germany
Sweden
Norway
United States: New York

1911: Canada: Northern Ontario, Eastern Ontario
Norway
England

1912: Canada: Northern Ontario, Québec (including the Gaspé), Newfoundland

1913: Canada: Ontario, Labrador
United States: Alaska, Yukon

1914: World Trip (1914 – 1915): Rome, Switzerland, Red Sea–Aden, Colombo, Freemantle, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Rangoon, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Nagpur, Bombay, Madras, Colombo, Kandy, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco, Toronto

1915: End of World Trip (see 1914)
Canada: Labrador

1916: Canada: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Labrador

1917: Canada: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick
South America Trip (1917 – 1918): Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Jamaica, Haiti, New York

1918: End of South American Trip (see 1917)
Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec (including the Gaspé), Ontario

1919: Canada: Québec (including the Gaspé), Ontario
United States: California , Utah, Colorado, New York, Illinois

1920 : Canada: British Columbia, Alberta , Manitoba, Ontario, Québec

1921: Canada: Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba

1922: Canada: Northern Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
Great Britain: England, Scotland
Belgium

1923: Canada: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
United States: Colorado, Arkansas, Wyoming,

1924: Canada: Northern Ontario, Québec (including the Gaspé), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
United States: Vermont, New York

1925: Canada: Eastern Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
United States: Colorado, Ohio, Kentucky, Wyoming, North Carolina

1926: Canada: Ontario, Québec
France
Spain
Morocco
Majorca
United States: New York

1927: Canada: Québec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland
United States: New York, Illinois

1928: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Québec
United States: Wyoming, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan

1929: England
Spain
Morocco
South Africa

1930: Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Northeastern Ontario, Québec

1931: Canada: Ontario
England
Finland
Denmark
Sweden

1932: Canada: Ontario
England

1933: Canada: Ontario
Cuba
Jamaica
United States: New York, District of Columbia

1934: Canada: Ontario
Cuba
Guatemala
United States: California, Illinois, Connecticut

1935: Colombia
Jamaica
Panama
United States: New York

1936: Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Northern Ontario
Mexico
United States: California

1937 : Canada: Alberta
Guatemala
United States: Wyoming, Dakota,

1938: Canada: Québec
England
El Salvador
Guatemala
Chile
Nicaragua
United States: Vermont

1939: Canada: Ontario
February 26, A.P. Coleman dies at Toronto, age 87