Abstract
Stan van Zyll de Jong as curator at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (now Canadian Museum of Nature) about 1983 Constantinus (Stan) van Zyll de Jong was born in Bandung, Java, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), 7 May 1934, of Dutch colonial parents. Stan's grandfather owned a tea plantation on Java, his father was an engineer for the Dutch government in the East Indies, and his mother, the daughter of a Dutch Reform Church minister, met and married Stan's father in the East Indies. During World War II, the family was interned by the Japanese. After the war, the family returned to the Netherlands. Stan graduated from high school in the Netherlands in 1954, then briefly served with the Royal Dutch Marines. In 1956, Stan and his older brother left the Netherlands and immigrated to British Columbia, where Stan worked at a variety of labor jobs including a brief stint as a ‘chokerman’ in a logging crew on Vancouver Island. He attended the Ontario Agricultural College (now the University of Guelph), graduating in 1961 with a B.S.A. degree in Wildlife Management. Van Zyll de Jong obtained his M.S. degree from the University of Alberta in 1963. …
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