In 1882, after being awarded a Vans Dunlop Scholarship, Also in 1884, he was an assistant engineer on the
Canadian Pacific Railway, responsible for railway works close to
Lake Superior, He was appointed technical advisor to the board and chairman of the Board's Housing Committee, In his 1911 ICEI presidential address he called for protection of the term "engineer", limiting it to qualified persons, saying "There lingers in many influential quarters the idea that the construction and maintenance of roads, and the provision of water supplies, and sewerage schemes can be placed in the hands of uneducated, untrained, and unskilled men". ==Personal life==