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Graham Westbrook Rowley CM MBE (1912–2003) was born in Manchester, England. He received his B.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1934, and his M.A. in 1936. From 1936 to 1939 he engaged in an archaeological excavation in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. During this time, he discovered new islands in Foxe Basin, carried out the original exploration of the Baffin Island coast, crossed Baffin Island by a new route, and excavated the first major site in Dorset culture. Because of his work with the Inuit and Dorset peoples, Rowley had a large island and river in the Arctic named after him. He met his wife Diana at the Royal Geographical Society in Cambridge, where she was a student editor. They married in 1944 and in 1946 they moved to Ottawa. He served in the Canadian Army in WWII. A Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Rowley was awarded the Society's prestigious Massey Medal in 1963 for his geographical work. As a scientist with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in the early 1970s, he created a training program for Northern scientists and developed ground and air support services for scientific groups working in the Arctic. He was made an honorary member of the American Polar Society in 1985. He died in Ottawa in 2003.

Born: 1912
Died: 2003