Kelsall, John P. (1924 - 1995)

Wildlife biologist and long-time Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America. Kelsall was born in Nova Scotia and obtained a B.A. at Acadia University, an M.A. at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia. He joined the Dominion (Canadian) Wildlife Service (CWS) in 1948, when it was a fledgling organization. From 1950 through 1959, from an office in Yellowknife, he conducted ecological studies on the barren-ground caribou populations of northern Canada. He and his wife Joyce lived in many different places over the years, finally ending up in Vancouver.