Bracelet Gold Man Nugget


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Bracelet Gold Man Nugget

Bracelet Gold Man Nugget

Scarlet fever struck Joseph Tyrrell when he was a young child and the illness left him with permanent hearing damage. Tyrrell, born on November 1, 1858 in Weston, Ontario, was a boy with great strength of character. He completed studies at Upper Canada College then graduated from the University of Toronto in 1880. Holding a fresh degree in Law, Tyrrell joined a local law firm and studied for admission to the Bar. But a career in the legal arena was not in Tyrrell's future.

Poor health caused Tyrrell to visit his doctor; the physician suggested work out of doors to ease Tyrrell’s ailments. “He now took a job as an assistant with the [Geological] Survey [of Canada], and in 1883 was invited to accompany a GSC survey to help determine the CPR’s route west...,” said The Alberta Freemason in “Bro Joseph Burr Tyrrell’, February 2009 issue. One of his first tasks was to catalog rocks and fossils found by GSC geologists on earlier trips. The next year, Tyrrell lead his own team on a search for natural resources in the Red Deer River valley. The expedition became one of the new geologist’s crowning glories – he was the first to find major dinosaur bones.

Tyrrell Discovered Dinosaur Bones and Coal Seams

Climbing a precipitous rock face in June 1883, 26-year-old Tyrrell was startled to come nearly face to face with the skull of a large dinosaur. Carefully cleaning away the dust and dirt, Tyrrell uncovered Albertosaurus Sarcophagus, the fossil remains of a slightly smaller relative of Tyrannosaurus Re. Although he was not a palaeontologist, Tyrrell was the first to find the Albertosaurus in Canada. The excitement was far from over for the geologist. A few days later, Tyrrell and his team discovered one of the largest seams of coal deposits in Canada, leading to the coal mining industry in the Drumheller region.