William Arthur Parks was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 geologist and paleontologist, following in the tradition of Lawrence Lambe

Lawrence Lambe

Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...

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Parks was born in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in 1892, Parks joined the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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's staff, where he taught geology, paleontology, and mineralogy. He earned a PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in 1900. He died in Toronto, Ontario in 1936.

Named taxa

• 1923 Lambeosaurus
  Lambeosaurus
  Lambeosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 76 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous Period of North America. This bipedal/quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur is known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest, which in the best-known species resembled a hatchet...
  
  
• 1923 Parasaurolophus
  Parasaurolophus
  Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...
  
  
• 1924 Dyoplosaurus
  Dyoplosaurus
  Dyoplosaurus is the name given to a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous near what is now the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada and was named by William Parks in 1924, based on holotype ROM 784, a partial skeleton including parts of the skull and lower jaws.The type...
  
  
• 1925 Arrhinoceratops
  Arrhinoceratops
  Arrhinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. The name was coined as its original describer concluded it had no nose-horn, however further analysis revealed this not to be the case...
  
  

Joshua Parks and Jeremy Parks are his descendants. They live in the small town of Tsawwassen, British Columbia

External links

• William Arthur Parks at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  The Canadian Encyclopedia
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