Kindle, E. M. (Edward Martin), 1869-1940 : Edward Martin Kindle, paleontologist and geologist, Ottawa, Ontario. He was born on March 10th, 1869. Dr. Kindle was graduated from Indiana State University in 1893, earned some money as Instructor in Geology in his Alma mater the following year, then followed Dr. Harris to Cornell University where, two years later, he obtained his M.Sc, under him. It was this environment and Dr. Harris' interest in the fossils which probably turned his attention to paleontology. It was as paleontologist that he made his first journey beyond the Artic Circle with the Cornell expedition to Greenland in 1896. From 1898 to 1901 he was Assistant geologist to the Indiana State Survey, during which time he completed his work for and obtained his doctorate in geology from Yale. At Yale he came into close contact with an other paleontologist, Charles Emerson Beecher.
He married Margaret Ferris of Grand Rapids, Michigan. To them was born a large family, six daughters and three sons. All of the sons have followed his profession. In 1901 he was appointed Geologist to the Federal Survey at Washington. In 1918 he was chosen to be Invertebrate Paleontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada, after the resignation of Dr. P.E. Raymond. He held this position until the death of L.M. Lambe, when he became chief of the Division of Paleontology, a position which he held for twenty years, until his retirement. A few years later he twice visited the western Artic as paleontologist on United States Government geological expeditions to Alaska. On two separate occasions the Geological Survey of Canada sent him beyond the Circle in the interior, down the Makenzie Valley.
In 1921 he was lent to the Labrador Boundary Commission. The scientific results of Dr. Kindle are contained in more than a hundred and seventy-five articles, the majority of which were published by scientific periodicals or organizations, but the wide scope of his observations and interest in the north is revealed in his essay on "Canada North of Fifty-six Degrees" published in 1928. He was a member or was elected a fellow of all societies which pertained to his work - member of the Association of American Geographers, of the Canadian Mining and Metallurgy Institute, Paleontological Society of America, and the Canadian Author's Association, elected fellow of the Geological Society of America and Royal Society of Canada. In 1930-31 he was chairman of the Geology Section of the Royal Society of Canada. For many years Dr. Kindle was a member of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. As mentioned above, he continued work on several projects until his death on August 29, 1940.
