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John W. Sullivan was an Irish-Canadian
mathematician ,
astronomer , and
explorer who took part in the
Palliser Expedition in the 19th century.
Biography
Sullivan taught at the
Royal Naval College in
Greenwich ,
England . On the recommendation of fellow Naval College faculty member Edward Purcell, he became the astronomer and secretary on the
Palliser Expedition that explored and surveyed what is now
western Canada from 1857 to 1860.
[1]
[2]
As part of his explorations, Sullivan described the
Nakoda people ,
[3] and was the first to record the
Sarcee language .
[4]
Legacy
Mount Sullivan, a peak near
Dease Lake (British Columbia) , is named after Sullivan.
[5]
References
^ Larmour, Judy (2005),
Laying Down the Lines: A History of Land Surveying in Alberta , Brindle and Glass, p. 7,
ISBN
978-1-897142-04-2 .
^ Davis, Richard Clarke; Ruggles, Richard I. (1988),
Rupert's Land: a cultural tapestry , Calgary Institute for the Humanities Series, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, p. 197,
ISBN
978-0-88920-976-3 .
^ Oltmann, Ruth (1997),
My Valley: The Kananaskis , Rocky Mountain Books, p. 13,
ISBN
978-0-921102-40-3 .
^ Cook, Eung-Do (1984),
A Sarcee grammar , UBC Press, p. 3,
ISBN
978-0-7748-0200-0 .
^ Spry, Irene M. (1959), "Captain John Palliser and the Exploration of Western Canada", The Geographical Journal , 125 (2): 149–184,
doi :
10.2307/1790499 ,
JSTOR
1790499 .