Genealogy: Beyond the BMD: 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.