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June, 1950
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Queen's University Honors N.R. Crump
The degree, Doctor of Laws, was conferred by the Hon. C.A. Dunning,
chancellor of Queen's University, in appreciation of the great services Mr. Crump is rendering to the profession of
engineering. Above, left to right,: Dr. R.C. Wallace principal and vice-chancellor, Mr. Dunning,
Mr. Crump, and Dr. W.A. Mackintosh dean of the faculty of arts.
N.R. Crump, Company vice-president, Montreal,
received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, 20 May 1950.
The degree was conferred in appreciation of the service he is rendering to the engineering profession in his capacity
as vice-president of Canadian Pacific.
The vice-president addressed the graduating classes in applied science and commerce. He told the
graduates that there was an ever broadening field of knowledge derived from chemistry and physics requiring the
services of engineers to put into practical use.
He told the engineers that they were part of the largest graduating class in Canada's history, estimated at 3,660,
but that this country should have no difficulty in absorbing them, so long as the Canadian economy retained its
present high level.
"We are now a highly industrialized nation with a standard of living that requires an ever greater production of
consumer goods", he said, "and you as engineers will be required to produce them".
Technological developments of the past 50 years the railway executive termed beyond belief.
"We cannot say at this time what implications are contained in the development of atomic energy", he said.
"But there seems little doubt that we now have knowledge in this subject equivalent to that of electricity, 50
years ago".
"In reaching the maximum usefulness, we should be hard headed and practical if we are to increase the efficiency
with which scarce resources can be used to the greatest material benefit", he advised.
He felt that industry also expected something of the university trained man, and warned the engineers that ability to
work hard ranked equally as high as ability to get along with people and make decisions, in the requirements for
success.
Long Ago at Stoney Creek - The place was Stoney Creek, British
Columbia, the date 17 May 1884, when this interesting group was photographed alongside a Canadian
Pacific passenger train of that period. They are identified as follows, back row left to right: H. Abbott, P.A.
Peterson, Mr. Jeffery R. Marpole, Mrs. H.R. Hooper, Mr. Irwin, Mr. Macdonald. Front row left to right: Mr.
Erskine, Sir William Van Horne former president of the Company, Sir C. Czwoski, Mr. Nordheimer.
This Canadian Pacific Spanner article
is copyright 1950 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with their
permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
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