David Boyle
Grandson of the Blacksmith, who
worked near Greenfoot, across from Sorn church.
From the Sorn Parish Magazine
June 1907, this interesting reference
Bleow: Taken from AB Todd's book,
page 25, see books and articles, Sorn related. The book was published around
1906, when the author was in his 80s. The reference here is when he was at school,
which was also by the church in the early and mid 1800s.
Correspondence by Kenny Baird
from Royal Ontario Museum, May 2001
" The Museum mentioned in the clipping no longer exists. In 1933 its collections
were transferred to the Royal Ontario Museum. David Boyle was a very prominent
archaeologist in Toronto and was responsible for much of our existing anthropological
collections at the ROM. He was an active collector through the 1890s and early
1900s.
Gerald Killan has published a biography on Boyle entitled: David Boyle: From
Artisan to Archaeologist [1983].
Regards
Arthur Smith
Librarian Royal Ontario Museum
David Boyle (1842-1911)
In 1888, the Canadian Institute appointed David
Boyle as Canada's first full-time professional archaeologist. From 1896 to
1911 he served as curator at the Ontario Provincial Museum, a forerunner of
the that grew out of Ryerson's Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts in
1867. Today Boyle is remembered through The Boyle Memorial Lectureship in
Archaeology, which finances lectures by archaeological visitors to the department
of Anthropology.
Read more about him in G. Killan (1983), From
Artisan to Archaeologist: David Boyle. University of Toronto Press; and (1998),
David Boyle, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 14, 1911-1920. University
of Toronto Press, pp. 130-134.
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