This year is 100th anniversary of the Calling of an Engineer

The Calling of an Engineer is the tradition where engineering students receive their Iron Rings, and began in Montreal in 1925.

March is National Engineering Month, a time to celebrate the world’s engineering achievements and inspire the next generation of problem-solvers. We have engineering ingenuity to thank for many of the things we use daily – vehicles, food services, and the device you’re reading this on.

Our archives collection has the first issue of Engineering Digest, with the Right Honourable C.D. Howe. He formed a company to build grain elevators in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Dominion-Howe unloader he helped design emptied a grain car five times faster than their competitor and needed only two operators versus a crew of 20.