INNOVATION Centennial Collectors Edition January-February 2020

100 YEARS OF GROWTH From 500 engineers to 37,000 engineers and geoscientists, our 100-year history is punctuated with growth and change—but always rooted in supporting the professions and serving the public.

1919 Two collapses of the Quebec Bridge—one in 1907 and another in 1916—triggered engineers from across Canada to begin a movement to regulate the engineering profession. In 1919, a group of engineers gathered in Montreal to draw up the first “model registration bill”— upon which all provincial acts were later based.

1959 Marianne Ingeborg Claus becomes the first woman to be registered as a professional engineer. (She enrolled with the association as an EIT in 1954).

1942–1945 The association lends its assistance to the war effort through the Wartime Bureau of Technical Personnel, to help address the critical shortage of engineering expertise. Many engineers are conscripted to serve in the war.

1930 Association membership rises to about 850.

1950 Membership in the association reaches 3,000.

1933 The association creates a Christmas Fund (now known as The Benevolent Fund), that provides loans to members in financial distress, to offset the effects of the Great Depression.

1961 The 4000th BC professional engineer is registered to the association.

1951 The association journal, BC Professional Engineer , as it was in May 1951.

1920 The first Engineering Profession Act was brought into law in BC, leading to the formation of the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of British Columbia

1955 After multiple minor amendments throughout the 1920s (primarily to strengthen Act enforcement and ensure uniform qualifications), 1940s, and 1950s, an entirely new Engineering Profession Act is introduced and passed as legislation.

(APEBC). Initial membership was between 500 and 600 men. Horace L. Robertson (certificate shown) was the third member and the Secretary-Treasurer.