. The Canadian field-naturalist. Figure 3. Loris Russell, 1922. Photographer unknown. (Photo courtesy ROM Archives). During his initial period in Ottawa (1930-1937) Lxjris met his future wife and constant companion of 60 years, Grace. Grace Evelyn LeFeuvre was eight years young- er than Loris. Her mother was born in Montreal of Irish stock, and her father had immigrated to Canada from Jersey, in the Channel Islands. Grace and Loris had met by arrangement of their mothers. While work- ing at the GSC in Ottawa, where he could take Grace out on dates, Loris was offered the position of Assistant D
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Figure 3. Loris Russell, 1922. Photographer unknown. (Photo courtesy ROM Archives). During his initial period in Ottawa (1930-1937) Lxjris met his future wife and constant companion of 60 years, Grace. Grace Evelyn LeFeuvre was eight years young- er than Loris. Her mother was born in Montreal of Irish stock, and her father had immigrated to Canada from Jersey, in the Channel Islands. Grace and Loris had met by arrangement of their mothers. While work- ing at the GSC in Ottawa, where he could take Grace out on dates, Loris was offered the position of Assistant Director of the Vertebrate Section of the then separate Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology (ROMP), in 1937. This position came about due to the death of W. A. Parks in 1936, and Parks' protege, Madeleine A. Fritz, simultaneously being appointed Assistant Direc- tor of the Invertebrate Section of ROMP. He consid- ered turning down the offer, because he did not want to be far from Grace. The only solution was marriage, and his proposal was to the point: "I'm not going there without you". It appears he may have, at least briefly, because he moved to Toronto in 1937, and they were not married until 1938. Upon their marriage, Grace had to give up her nursing career, as only one income per household was allowed during the Depression. With the Assistant Directorship at the ROMP came an Assistant Professorship at the UT, in Palaeontology. However, this work was interrupted by the Second World War. With his ability as a ham radio operator (Figure 5), he served from 1942 to 1945 in the Royal Canadian Signal Corps. He first learned this skill in 1922, an interest that he may have gotten from his father, who was a telegrapher for the railway (although his father had died earlier in 1911). At war's end, he was «*â '\ ll||»- r <0. Figure 4. Loris Russell (right) and C. M. Sternberg (left) excavating an Edmontosaurus skeleton in the Red Deer River val- ley, 1923. Photo b
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