Arthur Philemon Coleman

Arthur Philemon Coleman (* 1852 in Lachute, Quebec, † 1939) was a Canadian geologist.

Born as the son of Rev. Francis Coleman and Emmeline Maria Adams ( a descendant of John Quincy Adams), he made 1876 BA, 1880 MA at Victoria College, University of Toronto in Cobourg, Ontario, and in 1881 Ph.D. at the University of Breslau.

In 1882 he became a professor at the Faculty of Geology and Natural History of Victoria College. Between 1891 and 1901 he was Professor of Geology at the School of Practical Science in Toronto. In the period 1893-1909 he authored numerous reports for the Bureau of Mines of the Government of Ontario. Between 1901 and 1922 he was Professor of Geology at the University of Toronto where until 1922 he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1919. As a geologist, he was from 1931 employed by the Department of Mines until he retired in 1934 from active service.

Coleman was a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1900 and was its president in 1921. 1902 he was elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute, was a member of the Royal Society from 1910 and 1915, the post of President of the Geological Society of America held. In 1910 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, 1928 with the Flavelle Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1936 with the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America.

In 1884 he succeeded in the first ascent of Castle Mountain and in 1907 he attempted the first white man to climb Mount Robson.

The Mount Coleman and the Coleman Glacier Glacier in Banff National Park are named after him.

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