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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Bell FRSC
MD (June 3, 1841 - June 17, 1917) was a Canadian geologist, professor
and civil servant. He is considered Canada's greatest exploring
scientist, having named over 3,000 geographical features. Robert Bell
was born in Toronto, Upper Canada to Presbyterian clergy and amateur
geologist, Reverend Andrew Bell and Elizabeth Notman. In 1873, Bell
married Agnes Smith. They had a son and three daughters. He spent his
retirement at his home in Ottawa and his farm in Rathwell, Manitoba.
Bell died at the age of 67 at his farm after a brief illness. As a
15-year old teenager he worked as a summer assistant to Sir William
Edmond Logan with the Geological Survey of Canada. Even as he started
postsecondary education he continued to work summers with the
Geographical Survey, heading his own survey party in 1859.
