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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">August 23, 2018</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum accepts world’s largest collection
</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">of fossils from the McAbee Site</span></b><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC–The Royal BC Museum has accepted a donation of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection from the McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site,</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
near Cache Creek, BC<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The donated collection, of an estimated 18,000 specimens, was made by the late John Leahy, who managed the site while it was under mineral tenure, and his colleague David
Langevin. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“This is an exceptional donation of paleontological material from a remarkable site in BC,” says Royal BC Museum CEO Prof. Jack Lohman. “As befits an epoch-spanning treasure, we
anticipate the Leahy-Langevin collection will be used as a research resource for decades to come, and the foundation of numerous educational activities and public programs.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The donation comes as the Province of BC kicks off a BC-wide campaign encouraging citizens to vote for an official “Provincial Fossil”:
</span><a href="https://www2.qa.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource-use/land-use/fossil-management/designating-a-provincial-fossil"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://www2.qa.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource-use/land-use/fossil-management/designating-a-provincial-fossil</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Underpinning both of these announcements is the Province’s Fossil Management Framework. Recognizing that fossils and fossil sites are important to BC as heritage resources, the
framework sets out guidelines for their use, for the management of impacts on fossils from other activities and for the protection of significant sites. More information is available at:
</span><a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource-use/land-use/fossil-management"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource-use/land-use/fossil-management</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“British Columbia has a rich variety of fossils and they are the footprints of our history,” said
<span style="color:black">the Honourable </span>Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Operations and Rural Development. “This extensive collection being given to the Royal BC Museum will mean that museum visitors will be able to learn from and
appreciate fossils for generations to come.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The McAbee beds, comprising fossils from the early Eocene Epoch (52 million years ago), are some of the most important in the world, renowned for their incredible abundance, diversity
and quality of fossils. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The site, part of an old lake bed, is considered British Columbia’s most diverse for Eocene Epoch fossils of plants and insects, and has been designated as a Provincial Heritage
site<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Dr. Richard Hebda, Royal BC Museum Curator Emeritus (previously Curator of Botany and Earth History), had examined the “Leahy-Langevin collection” in Kamloops years ago to assess
its condition, size and suitability for acquisition. He quickly determined the collection was outstanding in all respects, including its international significance.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">John Leahy was a Kamloops-area teacher who was widely-respected as an “informed amateur” in the world of fossils. When he was not guiding
tourists at the McAbee site during the summer months, Leahy used a scanner to take detailed photographs of his fossil finds, mailing these images to scientists across North America. Many scholarly paleontological papers were written as a consequence, relying
upon both the samples and imagery that Leahy provided from afar, as a passionate amateur.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">It was clear to Hebda that Leahy—and his collecting partner, David Langevin, who held a claim at the McAbee</span>
<span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">fossil site— selected specimens for quality and potential scientific value.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Many of the pieces comprise numerous organisms (e.g. plants, insects, fish, etc.).
</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Hebda’s report suggested that the collection undoubtedly includes many species new to science. Several have already been described, but many
more await description, a process that Royal BC Museum staff and associates will soon begin in earnest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Visitors to the Royal BC Museum’s website can use our new Learning Portal Pathway to find out more about the McAbee fossil beds at:
</span><a href="https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/fossil-finds"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/fossil-finds</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Marvel at the lives of ancient Egyptians in the feature exhibition
<b><i>Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs, </i></b>open at the Royal BC Museum until Dec 31, 2018.
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