| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Robert Archibald Logan was born in Nova Scotia, and educated at the Nova Scotia College and the University of Alberta. He began surveying in 1910 and received his Dominion Land Surveyors Certificate in 1914. In 1915, he studied flying at the Curtiss Aviation School in Toronto, Ontario and received his Pilot Certificate. He then enlisted and served with Royal Flying Corps as a Second Lieutenant. During an expedition in 1917, the Germany Army captured Robert and Reginald Harry, the son of the Mayor of Edmonton. They spent 630 days as Prisoners of War (POW) and served in six different POW camps. After the war, Robert accompanied the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1922 to investigate conditions affecting aircraft in the Arctic Islands. He later served with the United States Army as a surveying officer, reporting on landing fields in many parts of the world. He retired from the Army in 1944. While working as a surveyor, Robert began learning the Cree language. After his retirement, he began to pursue his study of the Cree language. Robert corresponded with Cree speakers throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan, and used the knowledge gained from this correspondence and his studies to publish a Cree-English Dictionary and Remarks on the Cree Language in 1964. |