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Person
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J. Garth Taylor
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Description area
Dates of existence
1776-1990
History
J. Garth Taylor was born in Cobourg, Ontario, in 1941 and received his Ph. D in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was associate curator in the Ethnology department. He has taught at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and had been employed at the National Museum of Man (later renamed the Canadian Museum of Civilization), Ottawa. Dr. Taylor has done field studies in several native communities, both in the Arctic and subarctic, and has carried out extensive historical research in museums and archives, in addition to being a published author.