The Golden Gate Bridge construction site was the first site to be designated as a “hard hat area.” Courtesy of Bullard Edward W. Bullard returned home after World War I with a metal helmet he had worn as an American infantryman, a.k.a. a doughboy, during combat and the spark of an idea for something that …
The cover of the first edition of CIM Magazine, February 2006 In 1998 CIM celebrated its centennial by publishing a book chronicling the Institute’s past called Pride and Vision. The book was sent to libraries around the country to inform the public about the Canadian mineral resource sector and CIM over the previous century. CIM …
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November 1974: Prime Minister P.E. Trudeau receives a copy of the 4TH edition of the New National Atlas of Canada, prepared by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. For the first time, a commercial publisher, The Macmillan Company of Canada, partnered with the department to produce English and French versions of a conventionally bound …
