J. S. (Jim) Thomson, a mining engineer who was active in British Columbia’s Bralorne gold camp as well as in Newfoundland, the Yukon Territory and the Hemlo, Ont., gold camp, died recently at Tsawwassen, B.C. He was 67.
Born in Moose Jaw, Sask., on Oct 19, 1920, Mr Thomson attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ont., and McGill University in Montreal before volunteering for duty in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. He saw active duty in Europe as a bomber pilot and first officer and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
It was in England that he met and married his wife, Betty, while both were in military service.
After the war, in 1950, he obtained a degree in mining engineering from the University of British Columbia and began a long association with Bralorne Mines. He worked in the Bralorne camp from 1950 to 1973.
In 1973 he joined Teck Corp. as project development manager and played a leading role in developing the Newfoundland Zinc mine at Daniels Harbor, Nfld., the Granville placer gold mine in the Yukon and the David Bell gold mine at Hemlo, Ont. He retired from Teck in 1985.
Mr Thomson’s colleagues at Teck say he was “a gentleman and a good mining man.” He was a member of the cimme, the Professional Engineers of B.C. and the Engineers Club of Vancouver.
He is survived by his wife, four children and four grandchildren.
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