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Article: John Seaman Bates. (Obituary)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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John Seaman Bates, OC, FCIC, at the age of 103, died on November 26, 1991, in Sackville, NB, where he had resided for the past 20 years. His comment on the modest city where he chose finally to settle down shows the humanity of this ground-breaking engineer, active citizen, and world traveller. "Sackville is the civilization for which the rest of the world is groping."
We should all know of John Bates because he was the last surviving Founding Member of the CIC, and his passing has severed our only remaining link to its origin in 1921. Although there were then few chemists and chemical engineers in Canada, John Bates, with several equally visionary colleagues, ...
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