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'''Terry Allan Simmons''' was a Canadian lawyer and [[cultural geographer]], and the founder of the British Columbia [[Sierra Club]].<ref name="British Columbia Sierra Club"></ref><ref>https://ift.tt/2KWHdGV> In this role, he participated in the [[Don't Make A Wave Committee]], understood as the origin of the environmental organization [[Greenpeace]].
==Education==
Simmons completed an undergraduate degree at the [[University of California Santa Cruz]], in 1968. At [[Simon Fraser University]], in [[Burnaby]], [[British Columbia]], he undertook graduate studies in the Geography Department. His MA thesis was on the High [[Ross Dam]] Controversy. Supervised by Edward M. Gibson, Simmons concluded those studies in 1974. Thereafter, Simmons moved to Minnesota, for more graduate study in [[Cultural Geography]], under the supervision of noted Humanistic Geographer [[Yi-Fu Tuan]]. Simmons' dissertation was an examination of the British Columbia [[back-to-the-land movement]].
Simmons also undertook a subsequent law degree, in [[Nevada]].
==Environmental activism==
The 1960s [[nuclear arms race]] between the United States and the Soviet Union precipitated many nuclear tests. Students from the [[University of British Columbia]], and other institutions, held a large protest against such tests at the [[Peace Arch Border Crossing]] in October 1969.<ref>https://ift.tt/3mykHSI>
==Publications==
*''The Damnation of a Dam: The High Ross Dam Controversy''. 1974. MA Thesis, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.
*''But We Must Cultivate Our Garden: Twentieth Century Pioneering in Rural British Columbia''. 1979. PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.
==References==
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