Inventor Name
Emmerson, Donald Winslow
Repository
Library and Archives Canada
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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.
