Diamond Jenness [SEP] place of birth
Diamond Jenness
Diamond Jenness, (February 10, 1886, Wellington, New Zealand – November 29, 1969, Chelsea, Quebec, Canada) was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology.
Biography.
He graduated from the University of New Zealand (from the constituent college then called Victoria University College) (B.A. 1907; M.A. 1908), and Balliol College, University of Oxford (Diploma in Anthropology, 1910; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1916). From 1911 to 1912 he
detailed diary while he was with the Canadian Arctic Expedition. It was edited by his son Stuart and published in 1991.
- "Through Darkening Spectacles: Memoirs of Diamond Jenness" (2008). In this book, Stuart Jenness augmented Jenness' last manuscript into a quasi-biography.
External links.
- Diamond Jenness archived at Natural Resources Canada
- People of the Canadian Arctic Expedition
- 'Diamond Jenness': After the Grind
- Bio sketch by Henry B. Collins and William E. Taylor,