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Robert George McCandless

Robert McCandless practiced as a geologist until his retirement in 2009 after 28 years with Environment Canada. Previously he worked in oil and gas exploration and mining. His work as a researcher in the Yukon Territory led to his publishing Yukon Wildlife: A Social History (University of Alberta Press, 1985). With government, he worked on environmental issues in the mining sector, and also advised on Aboriginal affairs including northern Canada and BC treaty negotiations. Since retirement he has published on natural resource and history topics including BC Offshore petroleum exploration before the current “moratorium” (BC Studies No 178, summer 2013); Britannia Mine pollution (BC Studies No 188, Winter 2015/16), BC mining of strategic metals during WW2 (BC Studies No 211, Autumn 2021, and continues historical research and writing.