 He is interred in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec, and is the namesake for Dawson College.The mineral dawsonite, which was discovered during the building of the Redpath Museum with which he was intimately related, is named in his honour.As a Christian, Dawson spoke against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and came to write "The Origin of the World, According to Revelation and Science" (1877) and "Facts and Fancies in Modern Science