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Henry Youle Hind, geologist, naturalist, explorer, author, was born at Nottingham, England on 1 June 1823, third son of Thomas and Sarah (Youle) Hind. He attended college at Leipzig, Germany, 1837-1839, and studied in England and France before immigrating to Toronto, Ont. in 1846. In 1847 Hind was appointed lecturer of science and mathematics at the provincial Normal School, Toronto. In 1857 he was professor of geology and chemistry at Trinity College, Toronto when the Geological Survey of Canada asked him to accompany an expedition to explore the territory between Fort William and the Red River settlement at Fort Garry. Hind's Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 was subsequently published in 1860. In 1864 Hind moved his family to the Maritimes where he conducted several geological surveys and wrote numerous works on geology, the natural sciences, and agriculture. He died at Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1908.