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Harding, Stan
Harding, S.R.L.
Harding, S. R. L.
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Stanley Russell Lauck Harding, 1912-1996, was born on a farm in Saskatchewan and attended public and normal school in Regina. He taught school for several years and worked for the YMCA. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and graduated with a BSc in 1942. He then earned an MSc at McGill University and began work as a geologist with Imperial Oil.
In 1952 he joined Sproule Associates and worked for clients all over Western and northern Canada, as well as in Brazil and Poland. In 1951 he was president of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists and he was also active with several other petroleum societies.
Harding married Jean Coutts, ?-1974, and they had three children, Douglas, Richard, and Margaret (Shone). He later married Lois Fry.
For further information see Aubrey Kerr's article, "S. R. L. (Stan) Harding (1912-1996)" in Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. -- vol. 44, no. 3 (September 1996), p. 592-593.