 He is the author of some 60 studies of Canadian geology, including the report on the region of Chibougamau which he wrote with Gwillim and Faribault; at the end of its research, this report was published in 1911 by the Quebec Department of Mines, in its English version.Its English version is a translation of Joseph Obalski, in 1912.Barlow perished in the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, opposite Sainte-Luce, Quebec, in 1914.