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Sir William Edmond Logan, born in Montreal in 1798, transformed from a coal mine manager into Canada's pioneering geologist, founding the Geological Survey of Canada in 1842. His meticulous mapping of South Wales coal fields and early Canadian terrains revealed the absence of coal in the Province of Canada, influencing Confederation in 1867. Logan's seminal 1863 publication, Geology of Canada, established the bedrock of North American geological knowledge.