Thursday, 25 July 2019

Civil Engineers and Contractors




There was a magazine titled The Canadian Engineer. It was a weekly paper for Civil Engineers and Contractors published from 1893-1939.
There are different kinds of engineers, so as population and readership grew, the magazine changed and it split... 
  • Canadian Engineer Roads and Bridges (later changed to Roads and          Construction)
  • Canadian Engineer Water and Sewer (later changed to Water and Sanitation)





Another is The Contract Record. This publication was published 1889-1908. There are ads and articles about construction, price lists of materials and a section called "Contracts Department", with news of upcoming projects, looking for contractors for specific jobs, and which companies were already awarded contracts. 



My New Brunswick cousins, George and Leslie Mavor were engineering contractors and in 1923 were paid $14,482.74 for their work on the Green River Bridge.
1923 Record of Public Accounts

Engineering and Contract Record, 1928, pg 616

Brothers John, George and Francis Mavor were on the list of those who worked on the roads at Lower Kintore, New Brunswick in 1874.





Relevant Links

 The Canadian Engineer

Canadian Engineer, some volumes at Internet Archive

The Canadian Contract Record

Engineering and Contract Record at Internet Archive

Michigan Engineer

The Surveyor and municipal engineer UK

Irish Builder and Engineer

The Municipal engineers journal, NY

Association of Municipal and County Engineers

Report of the city engineer, Toronto

Annual report of the City Engineer, Boston
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