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Donald Winslow Emmerson fonds, 1946-1979

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Emmerson, Donald Winslow

Repository

Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4
CANADA
Reference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html

Physical Description

70 cm of textual records

Summary

Donald W. Emmerson, chemist, was born in Moncton, N.B. and received a B.Sc in Chemistry from Mount Allison University in 1937. After working successively with Aluminum Co. of Canada and Bathurst Power and Paper Co., he became assistant editor of Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada at the end of World War II. Ca. 1951, he joined the Chemical Institute of Canada as founding editor of its journal, Chemistry in Canada, and subsequently became manager of publications for the Institute. In 1978, he published Canadian Inventors and Innovators, 1885 to 1950. Pioneering in Plastics.   Fonds consists of biographical note; interviews with figures involved in the development of the Canadian plastics industry; historical and research material gathered for Pioneering in Plastics, Pioneering in Plastics, drafts; chemical industry, correspondence and articles collected by Emmerson as editor of Chemistry in Canada; pulp and paper industry, articles written by Emmerson while on the staff of Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, including a file of articles by others.

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