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Born Scotland, June 12, 1835; died Chicago, Ill., Sept. 18, 1904. Began his career in St. Catharines, Ontario, before moving to Montreal, Quebec where he opened a studio specialized in portraiture on St. James Street in 1866. By 1971 he had a staff of twenty-five. In 1875, he moved his studio to Bleury Street close by photographer William Notman. Inglis left Montreal for Chicago in 1884 and died there in 1904.
The Institut de Recherche en Exploration Minérale/Mineral Exploration Research Institute was incorporated in 1973. Its purpose is to encourage through research programmes the growth and study of the mineral industry in Canada. Among the founders of the Institute were W. F. Hitschfeld, then Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill, and Wallace H. MacLean of McGill's Department of Geology.