Percival Walter St. George

Percival Walter St. George (c1850-1923), civil engineer of Canada

Born in Scotland

1866 Went to Canada.

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1923 Obituary

"Percival Walter St. George, one of the best known civil engineers of Canada, died in Montreal on the 12th November after an illness of two months, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He was born in Scotland and received his education in France and at the University of Edinburgh. He went to Canada in 1866 and, after being engaged in railway construction for some years, entered the service of the city of Montreal. He was appointed deputy city surveyor in 1876, and in 1883 became city surveyor, a post which he fulled with conspicuous ability. Mr St. George devised and carried out a plan which effectually prevented the flooding of the lower parts of the city on the breaking up of the ice in the spring, and effected great improvements in the paving and drainage. He resigned his position in 1900 to practice as consulting engineer. Mr St. George was a member of the Royal Flood Commission and belonged to several professional organisations, being one of the original members of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, of which body he was vice-president, and he was also president of the Engineers' Club.

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