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To facilitate the
acquirement and interchange OF Professional Knowledge amongst its
Members. To promote their professional interests. To encourage
original research. To develop and maintain high standards in the
Engineering Profession and to enhance the usefulness of the
Profession to the Public.
H. H. Vaughan, M E I C.
First President of The Engineering Institute of Canada
THE PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE
THAT the first
issue of our monthly Journal should report the first general
professional meeting of the Society can hardly be regarded as a
coincidence but we may certainly hope that it may prove an omen of
increasing success and a broadening field of usefulness for the new
Engineering Institute of Canada. The change in name, with all that
it involves, the holding of professional meetings in various
provinces and the publication of a journal are the concrete results
of the recommendations made by the Committee on Society Affairs
which have led to such important alterations being incorporated in
our new by-laws. The change in name implies the attempt to unite all
engineers in Canada, to whatever branch of the profession they may
belong, into one Society. The provincial and branch organization and
the general professional meetings will enable our members, in
whatever province they reside, to meet together for the interchange
of knowledge and become acquainted with each other and their
problems. The Journal will afford us all a means of being better
informed on the activities of the Society throughout the entire
country, for keeping our members more closely in touch with each
other and with headquarters and for increasing the usefulness of the
Society to its membership. Our new development may be ambitious but
it contains great possibilities. In spite of the terrible times
through which we are passing the results, so far, are most
encouraging. Our membership applications are not only increasing in
numbers but include many eminent engineers who had not previously
joined our society.
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