Low, Alexander Halley

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Low, Alexander Halley

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        1892-1974

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        Alexander Halley Low was born March 29,1892 in Kensington, London, England, the son of Alexander Graham Low and Annie Halley. He received a Master of Arts degree from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and studied geology at the Royal School of Mines, London. He served in World War I, mostly in Ireland.

        Around 1914, Alexander went on an oil prospecting trip in the Northwest Territories with Dr. T. O. Bosworth. Following the War, he returned to the Northwest Territories as an oil prospector in the Great Slave Slake region for the Imperial Oil Company. While there, he was approached by Bishop James R. Lucas to teach at the St. Peter's Mission (Residential) School in Hay River ca. 1918-19. In the early 1920s he continued oil exploration in the Fort Norman (now Tulita) area of the Northwest Territories with Mackenzie River Oil Ltd.

        Alexander also did some oil prospecting in Peru and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society. He married Dorothy Lindesay Gregory in 1933 and had two children, Jean Mary Lindesay Low and Alexander John Stewart Low. Alexander Halley Low died July 2, 1974 in Ferring, Sussex, England.

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        Created 2023-11-10 LG

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          Ancestry. "Alexander Halley Low." Accessed November 10, 2023. https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/alexander-halley-low-24-5hv32

          Lauriston, Victor. "Western Oil Results Have Been Disappointing." The Monetary Times 68, no. 1 (1922): 132-138. Accessed November 10, 2023. https://archive.org/details/pt01monetarytimes68torouoft/page/134/mode/2up?q=mackenzie

          "Prospectors Hopeful of Finding Rich Oil Wells in Far North Country." Edmonton Journal (July 26, 1919): 1.

          "Toronto Party Leaves for Oil Field in North." Calgary Herald (May 12, 1921): 18.

          University of Dundee Archive Services. "Series MS 458/1/3 - Alexander Halley Low (1892-1974)". Accessed November 10, 2023. https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/ms-458-1-3

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