Preparing to Grow (1870 - 1920)

2.0 Preparing to Grow (1870 - 1920)

2.1 Engineers Before there was Engineering

Engineers Before Regulation 1850-1920

• 2.1.1 Dawson Trail (1857)
• 2.1.2 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 in Manitoba (1881)
• 2.2.3 Sandford Fleming
• 2.2.4 First Bridges (Broadway, Provencher, Rural)
• 2.2.5 Manufactured Gas and 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