tudious man in charge of the government's experimental farm in Ottawa. At the turn of the twentieth century, Saunders took Red Fife wheat and crossed it with a variety from India. It grew into a healthy strain that Saunders called Marquis. Marquis wheat was the discovery of the century. It was even better for the Canadian season because it took just 100 days to ripen. The most northern areas of the prairies could now be opened for farming. With the development of Marquis wheat, Canada was to become one of the greatest wheat- producing nations of the world.
             He was a Nova Scotia doctor, geologist, author and inventor. In 1842 in NB, he opened one of the first museums in BNA. It featured a collection of minerals and wildlife specimens that he had collected on his travel s through the countryside.
             However, his greatest accomplishment came in 1854. He patented the process for manufacturing kerosene oil from petroleum. Kerosene was inexpensive to manufacture. It
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