January 2025

January 15, 2025
Four people looking over a map in 1960. Samuel Gaskin, an African Nova Scotian employee of the mapping department is on the left, pointing to a map with a ruler.

Samuel Gaskin’s Contributions to Nova Scotia Geology 1950-1977

Working in the mapping unit of the Department of Nova Scotia Mines and Minerals from 1950 to 1977, Samuel Gaskin appears to be the first African Nova Scotian to work in the provincial geoscience department. Samuel’s knowledge and technical expertise in mapping providing an important contribution that positively impacted Nova Scotians through advances in maps for geoscience, tourism, and natural sciences.