Everend L. Bruce

Everend Lester Bruce (3 August 1884, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada – 5 October 1949, in Kingston, Ontario) was a Canadian geologist, known for his research on the economic mineralogy and geology of Precambrian metalliferous deposits in Canada. According to James Edwin Hawley, Bruce was in the 1930s and 1940s "regarded as the dean of Canadian pre-Cambrian geologists."

Biography Born in Toledo, Ontario, Everend Lester "Louis" Bruce graduated from Queen's University at Kingston with a B.Sc. in 1909 and a B.A. in 1911. From 1912 to 1915 he was a graduate student at Columbia University. There he received his M.S. and Ph.D. under James Furman Kemp and Charles Peter Berkey. He spent a year as a postdoc studying under Charles R. Van Hise and Charles Kenneth Leith at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 1912 to 1918 he worked with the Ontario Department of Lands and Mines and the Geological Survey of Canada to investigate Precambrian metalliferous deposits in northern Ontario, northern Manitoba, and northern Saskatchewan. In 1919 Bruce joined the faculty of Queen's University at Kingston. In the department of geology of Queeni's University at Kingston, Bruce was appointed to the Willet G. Miller Memorial Research Professorship in 1929 and held that appointment until his death in 1949 at age 65 from a heart attack. From 1944 to 1949 was the head of the department of geology. He was elected in 1943 the president of the Geological Society of America for a one-year term. In 1948 he was elected vice-president of the Society of Economic Geologists for a one-year term.

He married in 1923. He was predeceased by his wife and survived by their two sons.