Paul RAMAEKERS

PAUL RAMAEKERS August 1, 1944 - April 19, 2021 Paul was born in Wahlwiller, municipality Wittem, in the province of Limburg, The Netherlands. His mother Victoria Ramaekers-Niederer was a teacher and his father, Hubert, a horticultural consultant, who grew fruit that consistently won 1st prize at horticultural fairs. On May 14, 1957, the family embarked on a lifelong adventure on the Holland America's SS Grote Beer leaving Rotterdam for Montreal and settled in Hamilton, ON. A graduate of Cathedral Boys' High, Paul did his Honours BSc (67) and PH.D (75) at the University of Toronto. His thesis used a quantitative analysis of complex shapes applied to vertebrate fossil remains. Paul did stratigraphic and paleontological fieldwork in the NWT, Yukon, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Wyoming. He made significant Mesozoic finds elucidating the stratigraphy, structural history and paleobiology of several Mesozoic units. Even has a fossil fish named after him! After a stint teaching university in Regina, he joined the Saskatchewan Geological Survey as a senior sedimentary geologist and while mapping the 80000 sqkms Athabasca Basin, developed a regional stratigraphic framework for the Athabasca Sandstone. He later did a basin analysis of the Ghadwara and Murzuq basins in Libya. He was named to the Saskatchewan Geological Society's Geoscience Honour Roll and returned to Calgary, opening MF resources Inc, a consulting company. Paul died suddenly of an aortic rupture in Calgary, leaving his wife, Michelle, 4 children and his sisters Marianne Singh-Waraich and Odile Kulczycki, both of Burlington, ON. Condolences may be sent to mariannewaraich@gmail.com.