Career
In September 1946, Mackay joined McGill University's Department of Geography as an Assistant Professor. His first paper on "The North Shore of the Ottawa River, Quyon to Montebello, Quebec" was published in the Revue Canadienne de Geographie, Volume 1 in 1947. In 1949, he obtained a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal. Later that same year he accepted a position at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Geology and Geography. In 1953, Mackay was promoted to Associate Professor and became a full Professor in 1957.
Mackay gained international scientific recognition through his experimental and field investigations in geography, and especially on the topic of permafrost. He has published over two hundred scientific communications. Adding extensive research contributions in the Quaternary sciences.
Since 1981 he has been an Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia continuing to teach (voluntarily) a graduate course, undertake field research in the western Arctic and has published over fifty papers in refereed journals.
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