Bio
Until retiring in 2019, Jane Werniuk worked as a senior geologist, technical reporting at Agnico Eagle Mines in the Toronto head office. She studied geology at Queen’s University (BSc 1977) and Carleton University (MSc 1982). Her field work spanned South Africa, Arizona, Ontario, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon from 1975 to 1981, exploring for uranium and base metals as well as mapping for the federal and Ontario governments. The immediate result of an encounter with a bear in the Yukon in 1981 was that she then embarked on a new career in scientific editing and writing, starting with the Newfoundland Mines Branch (1982-84) followed by a textbook publisher, and finally a job that lasted: as assistant editor and then editor of Canadian Mining Journal (1986-1990, 1997-2008) in Toronto. Her attempt to break back into the world of geology was successful when she landed a job as a P.Geo. at the gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines in 2009, where she worked for a decade, combining her geological background and editing skills.
In 2023 and 2024, she has worked as an usher and support staff person for the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club at the Rogers Centre during the baseball season.
Jane is married to geologist George Werniuk, and they have two children, Margaret and Jerome, and four grandchildren. She has helped out with several volunteer organizations, including on the organizing committee of the TGDG (2011-2017). She arranged monthly networking lunches for the Toronto Branch of Women in Mining for several years (2006-2011). She was an enthusiastic member of the WIM Toronto walking team that raised over $1,000,000 for research benefitting women’s cancers (2007-2017). She was a member of the Corpus Christi Church refugee resettlement committee (2018-2020), assisting newcomers to Canada, particularly in the area of finding jobs.
