{"id":12997,"date":"2020-11-17T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstmemoridev.wpengine.com\/obituaries\/smith-donald-a\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T17:41:56","slug":"smith-donald-a","status":"publish","type":"orbituaries","link":"https:\/\/firstmemorialfairview.com\/fr\/obituaries\/smith-donald-a\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, Donald A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>DR. DONALD ALAN SMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">August 29, 1930 \u2013 November 13, 2020<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dad died peacefully at his family home near Stittsville, Ontario, at age 90.\u00a0 He was the son of Alan and Daphne Smith of Toronto.\u00a0 Predeceased by his wife Lorraine (2007) and granddaughter \u00a0Gillian (2017) and his beloved canine companion, Goldie (2020), he is survived by his five children (Peter, Carol, Suzanne, Janet, Paul), and their families, including ten grandchildren as well as his younger sister (Ann Daw) and her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dad had a lifelong relationship with nature and conservation.\u00a0 \u00a0In his youth he searched for owl nests, brought home baby raccoons, and lied about his age so he could join the Toronto Intermediate Naturalists with likeminded chums. His habit of keeping detailed notes and taking photographs began early, and he was never without his pen and notepad, binoculars or cameras through the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0As a young man, Dad particularly enjoyed field work at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station in Ontario (1948), working on Southampton Island in the Arctic, \u00a0and working as BC\u2019s first Park Interpretation Specialist at E.C. Manning Park (1957).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Dad received numerous academic awards and scholarships through the years.\u00a0 He completed three advanced degrees in Zoology at the University of Toronto, including his PhD in 1957. That Fall he joined the faculty of Carleton University in Ottawa where he was a beloved professor in the Biology department as well as the Curator of the Museum of Zoology until his retirement in 1995. His main area of expertise was small mammals.\u00a0 \u00a0Sabbatical trips to teach and conduct research included living and working in East Africa, Venezuela, Trinidad and Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Through his life, Dad\u2019s passion and action involved the natural world and preserving natural areas.\u00a0 In 1962 he worked to save the Mer Bleue Wetland in Ottawa: almost 50 years later he was presented with a conservation award for this success.\u00a0 More recently, land now known as the Smith Forest was gifted to the Haliburton Land Trust for future generations to enjoy.\u00a0 He was a member of the Haliburton and Kawartha Field Naturalists clubs and supported numerous conservation causes. He worked on the Breeding Bird Atlas of Ontario and did field work into his 80\u2019s on plant identification for an upcoming publication.\u00a0 Dad loved nothing better than teaching others about nature, and he gave many talks to schools, scout groups and naturalist clubs, always with specimens and stories, and he led countless hikes and bird walks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Dad\u2019s personal interests included natural history, birding, photography, travel, theatre, books (his nature and field guide collection is vast), watching CFL football and NHL Senators games, shopping at the Farmer\u2019s Market, eating hot and sour soup, and drinking a chilled rum and coke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dad was kind, wise, funny, thoughtful, precise, and dedicated to the people and things he loved.\u00a0 His legacy will live on in the lessons and teachings about nature he so freely shared with all lucky enough to have known him. In his final weeks, he was able to enjoy looking out at his bird feeders and forest property. He was taken to visit the beloved Haliburton cottage in his last months.\u00a0 Dad kept up with his family by phone, and was engaged and telling stories to the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Donations in his memory can be made to the Haliburton Land Trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haliburtonlandtrust.ca\">www.haliburtonlandtrust.ca<\/a> (PO Box 1478 Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0), Nature Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturecanada.ca\">www.naturecanada.ca<\/a> (Suite 300, 240 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1X4) or Birds Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdscanada.org\">www.birdscanada.org<\/a> . Immediate cremation will be followed by a celebration of life in Haliburton at a later date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR. 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