George P. Doerksen was born July 5, 1940, in Pitt Meadows British Columbia. He completed his secondary education at Maple Ridge High School, Haney, British Columbia, graduating in 1958. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and bacteriology from the University of British Columbia at Vancouver in 1963. After graduation, he taught elementary school for one year at Quesnel, British Columbia. During the following two academic years, he taught high school biology and chemistry at Saint Ann’s Academy, New Westminster, British Columbia. From 1967 to 1969 he attended Western Washington State College at Bellingham, Washington, and graduated with a Master of Science degree in biology. His thesis was a survey of the internal helminth parasites of the muskrat in southwestern British Columbia. During the school year 1969-1970, he taught biology, general science, and mathematics at the Colegio Internacional de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela. During the summer of 1970, he studied at the University of Oklahoma biological station on Lake Texoma, there making the acquaintance of Dr. James W. Hardin. In the fall of 1970, he began doctoral studies in entomology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. During the first summer session of 1973, he was appointed instructor of insect biology. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on May 11, 1974, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.<\/div>\r\n
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George P. Doerksen
George P. Doerksen was born July 5, 1940, in Pitt Meadows British Columbia. He completed his secondary education at Maple Ridge High School, Haney, British Columbia, graduating in 1958. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and bacteriology from the University of British Columbia at Vancouver in 1963. After graduation, he taught elementary school for one year at Quesnel, British Columbia. During the following two academic years, he taught high school biology and chemistry at Saint Ann’s Academy, New Westminster, British Columbia. From 1967 to 1969 he attended Western Washington State College at Bellingham, Washington, and graduated with a Master of Science degree in biology. His thesis was a survey of the internal helminth parasites of the muskrat in southwestern British Columbia. During the school year 1969-1970, he taught biology, general science, and mathematics at the Colegio Internacional de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela. During the summer of 1970, he studied at the University of Oklahoma biological station on Lake Texoma, there making the acquaintance of Dr. James W. Hardin. In the fall of 1970, he began doctoral studies in entomology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. During the first summer session of 1973, he was appointed instructor of insect biology. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on May 11, 1974, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
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The Doerksen Collection at the Museum.
The insects in our case were collected from various locations in North and South America by the late George P. Doerksen. As a teacher, scientist and researcher he travelled widely in North and South America in order to collect, photograph and document insects. His particular interest was the dragonfly, but the bulk of the collection is butterflies, most from Venezuela. George Doerksen died suddenly in 1981 near the community of Thasis on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. He was there as a teacher and a scientist, and he was pursuing his research at the time of his death. In 1982, Justina Doerksen donated her son’s collection to the Pitt Meadows Museum where it has delighted guests for decades.
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Longitude: -122.69376185002
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