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Moira Dunbar
Isobel Moira Dunbar FRSC OC (3 February 1918 – 22 November 1999) was a Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.
Dunbar was born in 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was raised in Stornoway, Strathpeffer, and Kilmarnock, and attended Cranley School for Girls. Her father, William John Dunbar, was a popular sheriff and advocate of the Scottish Bar. Her brother Maxwell was a marine biologist who was also made FRSC OC. Dunbar also had a sister, Elizabeth Jenkins (née Dunbar).
After emigrating to Canada and finding work with the federal government, Dunbar became a certified as a linguist in the Russian language in 1958. She was also fluent in German and French. In 1964 she went to Russia to observe their icebreaking operations with a government team.
Dunbar retired in 1978 as the Director of the Division of Earth Sciences. Following retirement, Dunbar spent much of her time at her countryside home in Dunrobin, Ontario.
Dunbar died on 22 November 1999 in Nepean, Ontario, at the age of 81. She left the acreage of property she owned in Limavady, County Londonderry, to the Queen's Foundation.
Dunbar began her education at Cranley School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, which she attended from grades 1 to 12. She was later accepted to study geography at St Anne's College at the University of Oxford, where she completed her BA (Hons) in Geography by 1939. Dunbar then went on to complete a master's in geography in 1948.[failed verification]
While studying at the University of Oxford, Dunbar performed with the Oxford University Drama Society. After graduating, Dunbar worked in the theatre industry, taking part in performances for the British Army during the Second World War. She then toured the United Kingdom with the English Theatre as an actor and stage manager. Dunbar later stated that she was "hopeless as a young ingénue" and that she was "known as a character juvenile".
Dunbar travelled to Canada in 1947 on a visitor's visa and learned that the Canadian Government was in need of trained geographers. She joined the Joint Intelligence Bureau where her career began editing a book of Arctic terrain and sea-ice descriptions and photographs obtained by two Royal Canadian Air Force navigators, Keith Greenaway and Sidney E. Colthorpe. Dunbar's study of the 1,046,000 square kilometres (404,000 sq mi) of the Arctic mapped by the RCAF in 1947 along with the 2,359,000 km2 (911,000 sq mi) mapped the following year added some 13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi) of land to Canadian maps, leaving only 15% of the Dominion north of 75° latitude to be mapped from the air.
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Moira Dunbar
Isobel Moira Dunbar FRSC OC (3 February 1918 – 22 November 1999) was a Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.
Dunbar was born in 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was raised in Stornoway, Strathpeffer, and Kilmarnock, and attended Cranley School for Girls. Her father, William John Dunbar, was a popular sheriff and advocate of the Scottish Bar. Her brother Maxwell was a marine biologist who was also made FRSC OC. Dunbar also had a sister, Elizabeth Jenkins (née Dunbar).
After emigrating to Canada and finding work with the federal government, Dunbar became a certified as a linguist in the Russian language in 1958. She was also fluent in German and French. In 1964 she went to Russia to observe their icebreaking operations with a government team.
Dunbar retired in 1978 as the Director of the Division of Earth Sciences. Following retirement, Dunbar spent much of her time at her countryside home in Dunrobin, Ontario.
Dunbar died on 22 November 1999 in Nepean, Ontario, at the age of 81. She left the acreage of property she owned in Limavady, County Londonderry, to the Queen's Foundation.
Dunbar began her education at Cranley School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, which she attended from grades 1 to 12. She was later accepted to study geography at St Anne's College at the University of Oxford, where she completed her BA (Hons) in Geography by 1939. Dunbar then went on to complete a master's in geography in 1948.[failed verification]
While studying at the University of Oxford, Dunbar performed with the Oxford University Drama Society. After graduating, Dunbar worked in the theatre industry, taking part in performances for the British Army during the Second World War. She then toured the United Kingdom with the English Theatre as an actor and stage manager. Dunbar later stated that she was "hopeless as a young ingénue" and that she was "known as a character juvenile".
Dunbar travelled to Canada in 1947 on a visitor's visa and learned that the Canadian Government was in need of trained geographers. She joined the Joint Intelligence Bureau where her career began editing a book of Arctic terrain and sea-ice descriptions and photographs obtained by two Royal Canadian Air Force navigators, Keith Greenaway and Sidney E. Colthorpe. Dunbar's study of the 1,046,000 square kilometres (404,000 sq mi) of the Arctic mapped by the RCAF in 1947 along with the 2,359,000 km2 (911,000 sq mi) mapped the following year added some 13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi) of land to Canadian maps, leaving only 15% of the Dominion north of 75° latitude to be mapped from the air.