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Edward IRVING Obituary
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for Edward IRVING
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John Shaw
March 8, 2014
It is sad to hear this news though Ted will live on in the memories of many. I remember his comments delivered in rhyming verse at NSERC grant adjudications. He also gave me advice for a happy home life on a bus trip from Kingston to Ottawa: "Don't bother Mum".
Ian Spooner
March 8, 2014
Ted was a wonderful mentor and along with Jane, Judith, Randy and others at PGC was a very important part of my graduate student years. I feel very privileged to have known him...a great loss.
March 7, 2014
The 3rd generation of the shallots that Ted gave me will be going back into the ground this spring.
Sincere condolences, Sheila and family, but what an amazing life lived so well. Fran
Kirk Osadetz
March 6, 2014
Ted Irving Remembered. Ted came to Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, as the Geological Survey of Canada Office in Calgary was then called, in the early 1980's shortly after I joined the GSC. My official position was an office job working on data from the Arctic Islands. Ted was looking for a geologist to guide his sampling in the Arctic Archipelago. I was anxious to both work in the field again and to return to the Archipelago. I signed on. During our first field season a combination of poor weather, trade-union like graduations on the face of the sun compass and Ted's ingenuity led to the invention of the “topo compass”, under what was truly the midnight sun. The original topo compass was composed of a Douglas protractor and a six inch plastic ruler from an elementary school geometry set. Ted and I, were joined the next year by Jane Wynne. Together we made a number of paleomagnetic studies. We also spent much time in animated conversations in Logan tents concocting apparently sophisticated meals from rather rudimentary rations. Only Ted could transform Wonder Bread, HP sauce and Kraft processed cheese into Welsh rarebit. The result of Ted's mentoring was a collection of papers that were the beginning of both Jane's and my research publications.
When Ted was retiring from a paid position at the GSC he sent Randy Enkin to see me, to discover if I had any project ideas. The resulting papers by Randy, Judith, myself and others described a pervasive syn-orogenic, but locally pre-deformational time-dependent chemical remagnetization of the Paleozoic carbonate succession during the Cordilleran orogeny.
Ted was a significant person in my career and life. It was because of my work with him, combined with the support of others that I was permitted to develop an independent research career at the GSC without a PhD; something Ted understood well. The result has been the source of great personal pleasure and satisfaction.
Ted was a truly gentle person. One of my fondest memories is of him telling a bedtime story "The White Cat" to my son Stephen who was three at the time. Stephen begins a tenure-track position in English Literature this July and I'd like to think that Ted shares in the parenting that produced that result. Unfortunately the need to attend to my own family this weekend prevents me from joining you to remember Ted in Victoria.
His was truly a life well lived. Ted's enduring contribution to knowledge and science will be a consolation that only partly fills the gap that his passing leaves in our lives. Who would have thought that greatness could be so unassuming and so gentle.
Robert Fulton
March 2, 2014
A very good scientist and a very human person. It is too bad that everyone has to die.
Phillip Schmidt
March 1, 2014
Ted's first PhD student, Ron Green, was my geophysics professor in Armidale, NSW, Australia. I became interested in palaeomagnetism and went to ANU to undertake a PhD myself. Many of we second and third generation palaeomag people owe Ted a huge debt. I was privileged to know the great man. Vale Ted.
Marji and Bob Johns
March 1, 2014
Ted was an inspiring mentor. How privileged to have worked with him and to have learned. His voice, calming words, shared knowledge, and wisdom will have a lasting impact.
Lisa Andersen
March 1, 2014
So very sorry for your great loss,
Steve and Lisa ,Cassidy, Gracie , Tyler, Ellie Rose Andersen
Dieter Weichert
March 1, 2014
Sheila, my condolences for your loss, I appreciated having known Ted, and am proud to have been able to assist him in tranlation some old German papers on magnetism and continental drift.
Catherine Banfield
March 1, 2014
While I never met him, he sounds like the kind of geologist we all long to be: passionate about his field, persistent against resistance to his ideas, and always eager to learn more.
Thank you, Ted. Your life is an inspiration to the rest of us.
Jane Irwin
February 28, 2014
Blessings and Love to you all. I remember your wedding with all the wine in the bathtub full of ice and the piper! I also remember how special Ted was to my son while showing him around the Lab, telling him to choose a profession that will allow travel. Well done, indeed, Ted...you gave us much.
Janie Irwin
Diana and Forrest Smith
February 28, 2014
A wonder-full legacy to the world. A life well lived and loved. Much gratitude
Linda Crookes
February 28, 2014
My dear Uncle, you will be missed greatly.. Aunt Sheila,Kate,Susie, Martin & George, you are all in our prayers and I want to express our great sorrow for your loss...I'm sure that he is leading the choir in Heaven with a rousing chorus of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down"..
Love to you all
Linda, Brian, Shannon & Lyndsay Crookes
Kirsten Tormod Pedersen
February 28, 2014
Ted will always be remembered for his understanding & his kindness. God bless him. He will be missed on our earth plane.
What an amazing human being.
Audrey Dallimore
February 28, 2014
Dear Sheila and family:
My sincere condolences for your loss. I will remember Ted as a remarkable, unique and generous scientist, a lovely human being and a mentor to many. A life so very well lived.
You are in my thoughts.
Audrey Dallimore
February 28, 2014
I am watching the beautiful dogwoods Ted gave me shine brilliant gold and red in the sun today. I planted them exactly where he said they should be. Will always remember him.
Mona B.
Ragnar ang Gloria Eeg
February 28, 2014
We are in awe of the many accomplishments Ted made in his time
here on earth and his legacy will truly endure. To Shelia and family we offer our most sincere condolences.Ted will be greatly missed in the neighbourhood.
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