12 Facts About Joseph Tyrrell

Joseph Tyrrell discovered dinosaur bones in Alberta's Badlands and coal around Drumheller in 1884.

Joseph Tyrrell was born in Weston, Ontario, the fifth child of William and Elizabeth Joseph Tyrrell.

Joseph Tyrrell was the brother of Canadian explorer and author James William Tyrrell.

Joseph Tyrrell was a student at Weston Grammar School before graduating from Upper Canada College in 1876 and receiving a law degree from the University of Toronto in 1880.

Joseph Tyrrell joined the Geological Survey of Canada in 1880, leading or participating in numerous explorations.

Joseph Tyrrell published two books in 1888: A Brief Narrative of the Journeys of David Thompson and The Mammalia of Canada.

Joseph Tyrrell led the 1893 and 1894 expeditions into the Northern Barren Lands, down the Dubawnt River, the first visit to the Kivalliq Region Barrenlands by a European since the explorations of Samuel Hearne in the 1770s.

In 1894, Joseph Tyrrell stumbled upon biographical recollections of Canadian overland explorer, cartographer, and fur trader David Thompson and, in 1916, published them as David Thompson's Narrative.

Joseph Tyrrell went into the gold-mining business in 1898, a career that would last more than 50 years.

Joseph Tyrrell was the mine manager of the Kirkland Lake Gold Mine in northern Ontario for many years starting in 1926.

Joseph Tyrrell retired to northeast Scarborough on the Rouge River, where he established substantial apple orchards and an interest in grafting and breeding.

Joseph Tyrrell died in Toronto in 1957 at the age of 98.