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The Heritage Committee was created in 2007 and has been active in building a collection of Association information to promote and preserve the practice of engineering and geoscience in Manitoba since then. One of the first tasks of the committee was to assist a graphic designer in the creation of a signature welcome display at the current office location on Pembina Highway. The committee initially published heritage information on an ad-hoc basis in the Keystone Professional. It was sometime after that the concept of publishing and hosting content on a wiki-pedia site was envisioned.

The Heritage Committee began a new journey in late 2017. With the 100th Anniversary of the Association coming in 2020, a plan was created to assemble a collection of articles worthy of publishing in a hard copy book to commemorate the event. The undertaking was very ambitious and began with enthusiasm and spirit. It was envisioned that the book would be part of a collection of celebratory deliverables and events scheduled for the 100 year. However, not all plans are robust enough to deal with various unforeseen events. The pandemic paused many activities and resulted in changed priorities for many including the volunteers on this task force. The concept of a hard copy centennial book is fading but there is realistic goals to publish the content on the wiki site in both an encyclopedia format as well as the format as was originally envisioned for a hard copy book.

The following articles are what was thought to be a good concept for a book and may still become one but in the interim here is the content. These articles are published to seek feedback and encourage more content as we continue to share information about the Association.

Introduction

• 1.1 Forward by Len Bateman
• 1.2 Acknowledgements
• 1.3 Introduction

1. REDIRECT Centennial Book Introduction

2.0 Preparing to Grow (1870 - 1920)

2.1 Engineers Before there was Engineering

1. REDIRECT Engineers Before Regulation 1850-1920

• 2.1.1 Dawson Trail (1857)

1. REDIRECT Dawson Trail

• 2.1.2 Simon James Dawson

1. REDIRECT Simon James Dawson

• 2.1.3 Indigenous Design - The Canoe

2.2 The Birth of a Province and an Era of Firsts

• 2.2.1 Louise Bridge (1881)
• 2.2.2 Canadian Pacific Railway Development (1881)
• 2.2.3 Sandford Fleming
• 2.2.4 First Bridges (Broadway, Provencher, Rural)
• 2.2.5 Synthetic Gas Manufacture & Distribution (1880)
• 2.2.6 Henry Norlande Ruttan (career 1885-1914)

2.4 The Engineering Institute of Canada (pre-1920)

• 2.4.1 Pinawa Generating Station (1902)
• 2.4.2 Union Bank Tower (1903)
• 2.4.3 Railway Shops (Transcona, McPhillips, Symington)
• 2.4.4 Factoid: CPR & CNR Main Stations
• 2.4.5 Tyndall Stone Quarry (1895)
• 2.4.6 Manufactured & Natural Cement (1898)
• 2.4.7 Thomas Russ Deacon (1865-1955)

2.5 The Future is in Education: Faculty of Engineering Opens its Doors

• 2.5.1 Development of the Telephone System (1907)
• 2.5.2 James Avenue Pumping Station (1907)
• 2.5.3 Lockport Mantioba History (St. Andrews Lock and Dam (1910))
• 2.5.4 Transcona Grain Elevator Failure & Restoration (1913)

2.6 World War I

• 2.6.0 Military Engineers
• 2.6.1 Hudson Bay Railway (1913)
• 2.6.2 Port Nelson (1913)
• 2.6.3 Shoal Lake Aqueduct (1915)
• 2.6.4 William Gregory Chace (1875-1937)
• 2.6.5 Byron William Parker (1882-1975)
• 2.6.6 Good Roads Board

3 Growth & Development (1920 - 1950)

3.1 Let's Try This Again: The Engineering Act of 1920

• 3.1.1 Manson Ainslie Lyons, First Association President
• 3.1.2 Walter M. Scott, Founding Member and First Chairman of Association

3.2 APEM vs EIC (post 1920)

• 3.2.1 Legislative Building

3.3 Registration Requirements and Grandfathering

• 3.3.1 International Correspondence School
• 3.3.2 Gilbert & Samuel McColl, First Engineers Registered
• 3.3.3 History of Surveyors in Manitoba

3.6 The Association Through the 1920s

• 3.6.1 Rural Electrification (1921)
• 3.6.2 Amy Street Steam Plant (1924)
• 3.6.3 Pine Falls Pulp & Paper (1925)
• 3.6.4 Exploiting the Mineral Resources of West-Central Manitoba
• 3.6.5 John Leslie Charles (1892-1992)
• 3.6.6 Edward Phillips Fetherstonhaugh (1879-1959)

3.7 The Hardship of the 30's

• 3.7.1 Aircraft Manufacturing (MacDonald Brother, Bristol/Magellan, Standard Aero)
• 3.7.2 Bus Manufacture (Motor Coach & New Flyer) (1933)

3.8 "The Calling of an Engineer"

• 3.8.1 Flin Flon Above Ground Water & Sewer System (1938)
• 3.8.2 John William Sanger (1886-1960)

3.9 Scott's Gavel

• 3.9.1 Charles S. Landon (1885-1967)

3.1 The Impact of WWII

• 3.10.1 Commonwealth Air Training Plan
• 3.10.2 Agricultural Manufacturing (Kilberry, Versatile, Tractor Tests, Western Steel (Grain Bins))
• 3.10.3 William Donald Hurst (career 1941-1971)

4 Expansion (1950 - 1980)

4.3 Exploding Supply & Demand of Engineers, Topping the Salary Charts

• 4.3.1 Artificial Knee (plus factoids for pacemaker and gamma knife)
• 4.3.2 History of Consulting Engineering
• 4.3.3 Whiteshell Labratories (1963)
• 4.3.4 Red River Floodway (1968)
• 4.3.5 The Thompson Nickel Discovery
• 4.3.6 Trans Canada Pipelines/Greater Winnipeg Gas
• 4.3.7 Manitoba’s Rural Highways
• 4.3.8 The Professional Engineer/The Keystone Professional

4.5 The Association Through the 1960s

• 4.5.1 CTTAM Founded

4.6 The Wives of Engineers

• 4.6.1 Black Brant Rocket (1961)
• 4.6.2 Carson H. Templeton (1950)
• 4.6.3 William Leslie “Les” Wardrop (1915-2017)
• 4.6.4 E.H Price

4.7 The Association Through the 1970s

• 4.7.1 Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba (1971)
• 4.7.2 HVDC Transmission System (1970)

5 Redefining Engineering (1980 - 2020)

5.1 The Association Through the 1980s (+factoid of turning pumping station into office)

• 5.1.1 Minnedosa Ethanol Plant (1981)

5.2 Women Breaking into the Profession

• 5.2.1 Judith Weiszmann

5.3 Experience Now Equal to Education: 4 Years as an EIT

• 5.3.1 Vansco

5.4 The Association Through the 1990s

• 5.4.1 RTDS

5.6 Defining Boundaries of the Profession (Technicians, Surveyors, Architects)

• 5.6.1 Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources

5.10 The Association Through the 2000s

• 5.10.1 Golden Boy Restoration (2002)
• 5.10.2 SCISAT-1 Scientific Satellite
• 5.10.3 Manitoba Hydro Office Tower (2008)

5.12 Life Long Learning Now Required

• 5.12.1 Richardson International Airport
• 5.12.2 Investors Group Field
• 5.12.3 Sewage Treatment

5.14 ENGAP/WISE

• 5.14.1 Indigenous Participation in Engineering
• 5.15 By the Numbers: Membership Over the Past 100 Years