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Science Meteorology & Climatology

The Beginnings of Canadian Meteorology

by (author) Morley Thomas

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Meteorology & Climatology, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550221497
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $40.00

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Description

This detailed history of meteorology in Canada to 1880 focuses on the establishment and operation of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory in Toronto. Established in 1839–1840 by the British Government and manned by a Royal Artillery detachment, the Observatory came under the control of the Province of Canada by the 1850s and was supervised by the University of Toronto for the next two decades. Morley Thomas examines the military bureaucracy in the early days of the observatory and discusses the problems encountered by the observatory's director, G. T. Kingston, in trying to establish a climate observing network, the basis for a scientific national meteorological service that would collect climate data and issue daily weather forecasts.

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Contributor Notes

Morley Thomas is a retired director-general of Environment Canada and has written extensively on climate and the history of meteorology.