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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Turnbull, Norman John
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Description area
Dates of existence
1921-2011
History
Norman John Turnbull was born in 1921 in Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College and was accepted into the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto in 1939. One year later, in 1940, N.J. Turnbull enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in WWII with the Queens Own Rifles. During his WWII service, N.J. Turnbull married his wife, Lillian Jean Givens, in Aldershot, England in 1945. He returned to the Faculty of Forestry in 1946 and graduated in 1949. He was an employee of Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co., Kapuskasing, Ontario.