Donald W. Emmerson, chemist, was born in Moncton, N.B. and received a B.Sc in Chemistry from Mount Allison University in 1937. After working successively with Aluminum Co. of Canada and Bathurst Power and Paper Co., he became assistant editor of Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada at the end of World War II. Ca. 1951, he joined the Chemical Institute of Canada as founding editor of its journal, Chemistry in Canada, and subsequently became manager of publications for the Institute. In 1978, he published Canadian Inventors and Innovators, 1885 to 1950. Pioneering in Plastics.
