Logan Inlet


Logan Inlet (52˚47'00" 131˚44'00" E side of Moresby I, S of Selwyn Inlet, QCI). Sir William Edmund Logan (1798–1875) was the founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada. He was born at Montreal, educated at Edinburgh and worked for his uncle, a London businessman, for 20 years. In 1831 his uncle sent him to manage a copper mine and smelter in Wales; Logan made detailed geological maps of the surrounding coal fields and developed theories about coal formation that are still...

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