Victor Milne, former director of the Ontario Geological Survey, died in late September. He was 68.
Milne was born in 1934 in Scotland and completed undergraduate studies in geology at the University of Aberdeen. He emigrated to Canada in 1957.
In 1958 he spent the summer working with the Geological Survey of Canada, then switched to the Ontario Department of Mines.
He left to work briefly in western Canada but returned to the Department of Mines in 1962; that same year, he completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto.
In 1972 Milne was named chief geologist of the Precambrian section, and nine years later was appointed deputy director of the southwest region in 1981.
In 1984 he became the second director of the Ontario Geological Survey, taking over from the late Edgar Pye.
Milne oversaw the move of the OGS to Sudbury from Toronto in 1990, and he would remain its director until his retirement in 1992.
Milne is survived by his wife, Florence, and three children, Catherine, Leslie and Gordon.
Thomas Tigert
Thomas Tigert, the original manager of the Cassiar asbestos mine in northern British Columbia and former general manager of Central Patricia gold mines in northern Ontario, has died. He was 91.
Tigert was born in 1910 and grew up in the Beaches area of Toronto. Throughout the Great Depression, he remained in the city and earned a degree in mining engineering from the University of Toronto.
His first job was at the Howie gold mine in Red Lake, Ont., where he met Katherine Mackie and married her in 1936.
Soon after, he became perhaps the youngest mill superintendent in the north when he accepted the position at the J.M. Consolidated Gold mine, also near Red Lake.
After a brief stint at a mine in Cadillac, Que., Tigert was hired as assistant mill superintendent at the Central Patricia gold mines at a fly-in town 300 km north of Sioux Lookout. Ont. He was eventually promoted to general manager.
In 1952, after Central Patricia was depleted, Tigert took a group of men with him west to develop the Cassiar mine.
He is survived by his wife two sons, Lance and Kent.
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