Geologist.
Born in Ontario on 15 January 1884, he was educated at the University of Toronto and University of Minnesota. He was then put in charge of the Department of Geology at the University of Idaho, leaving there in 1913 to come to the University of Manitoba to serve as a lecturer in Geology.
In 1927, he left the University of Manitoba to become Chair of a newly-established Geology Department at the University of Saskatchewan. He returned to Manitoba the next year when he was appointed as Commissioner of Mines for Manitoba, Chair of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Manitoba, and Head of the Department of Geology at the University, succeeding Robert Charles Wallace. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1927 and served as Chairman of the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mines and Metallurgy.
On 23 July 1921, he married Paulina Porter Fox (1878-1966) at the Nassau Street Baptist Church in Winnipeg. They had no children.
He died at Uxbridge, Ontario on 3 October 1968 and was buried with his wife in the Pine Grove Cemetery at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Justin Larsfield DeLury, Paulina Porter Fox], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“DeLury - Fox,” Manitoba Free Press, 27 July 1921, page 6.
“A geological department,” Saskatoon Daily Star, 22 February 1927, page 14.
“Is making survey of clay deposits,” Saskatoon Daily Star, 11 August 1927, page 7.
“DeLury is named to succeed Dr. Wallace,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 July 1928. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]
Obituary [Justin S. DeLury], Toronto Star, 5 October 1968, page 23.
We thank Jim Burns for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 February 2025
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