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John Oliver Wheeler was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of St. John's East from 1968 to 1979. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, on December 19, 1924. Wheeler attended Memorial University of Newfoundland and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1945. He then attended Dalhousie University and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1948. He was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1949 and practiced law in St. John's until his election to Parliament in 1968. Wheeler was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1968 federal election as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of St. John's East. He was re-elected in the 1972, 1974, and 1979 elections. He served as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs and the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Wheeler was a strong advocate for Newfoundland's interests in Ottawa and was a key figure in the negotiations leading to the signing of the Atlantic Accord in 1985. He was also a strong supporter of the Canadian Constitution and the patriation of the Constitution in 1982. Wheeler retired from politics in 1979 and returned to the practice of law in St. John's. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980. He died in St. John's on April 15, 2016 at the age of 91.

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1990

Wheeler retired in 1990. During his later years he remainined as an unsalaried emeritus research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver, and was a lead author of the 2004 Canada-USA collaborative Geological Map of North America.

1980

In the early 1980s, he lobbied for establishment of the Lithoprobe project. This 20-year project performed geoscientific studies on and mapped deep seismic transects of Canada’s crust. He served as chairman of Lithoprobe’s steering committee for two years.

1970

In the 1970s, Wheeler moved to Ottawa to become a manager. He was promoted to Chief Geologist, with responsibility for the scientific program. In the 1980s he returned to Vancouver to be the General Editor of the new 8-volume edition of the Geology of Canada. He prepared many of the large regional and national maps.

1957

Wheeler became a member of the Geological Association of Canada in 1957. He was a Councillor from 1968 to 1972. He served as President from 1970 to 1971.

1952

In 1952, Wheeler joined the Geological Survey of Canada. He worked for them for 39 years. He spent the first 20 years mapping the geology of 100,000 square kilometres. The greatest part of this achievement was the Cordillera from northern Washington to eastern Alaska. He also mapped several regions of the Yukon, including the Saint Elias Mountains, and parts of British Columbia, including the Selkirk Mountains. His work has become the foundation of all subsequent Cordilleran mapping studies and set the standard for geological mapping in Canada. In 1968, Wheeler was appointed head of the Survey’s Cordilleran Section.

1924

John Oliver Wheeler (19 December 1924 – 24 May 2015) was a Canadian geologist, who spent most of his career as a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada.

1921

Wheeler came from a family of surveyors. His father, Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler, participated in the first topographical survey of Mount Everest in 1921, and later rose to become Surveyor General of India. Wheeler's grandfather, Arthur Oliver Wheeler, mapped British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains and the British Columbia-Alberta border.

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