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McCowan, Dan
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Dan McCowan, 1882-1956, was born in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1907 he came to Canada to visit his brother in Banff, Alberta and decided to stay. He was a naturalist, author and lecturer who worked for the pubicity department of the Canadian Pacific Railway for 26 years. He promoted Banff and the Rocky Mountains by giving lectures illustrated with slides in Canada, the USA and Europe. During the Second World War he did a lecture tour to armed services camps across the country.
He published six books, including A Naturalist in Canada (1941), Outdoors with a Camera in Canada (1945) and Upland Trails (1955). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of England in 1938. He and his wife, Mary, had no children.