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Section A: Section D:
Milestones 1 - 5 The Organizations The Halifax Dartmouth Construction 1 - 12 Section B: Assocation at 100 The Industry Builders The Halifax Construction Assocation 13 - 14 The Brookfields 1 - 4 Bid Depository The Ropers 5 - 6 The Inter-Relations Committee 15 - 16 The MacMillans 7 - 8 Cape Breton Island Builders Exchange 17 - 18 The Gillises 9 - 12 Construction Labour Relations 19 - 20 The Dumaresqs 13 - 16 Construction Accident Prevention 21 - 22 Honourary Life Members Apprenticeship Training 23 - 26 Ernie Gillis 9 - 12 Defence Construction Canada 27 - 30 Earle Bowman 17 - 18 Adam Folk 19 - 20 Section E: R.C.T. Stewart 21 - 22 Bowman Award Recipients 1 Dean Salsman 23 - 24 Ian MacInnes 25 - 26 Past Chairmen and Presidents 2 John Lindsay 27 - 28 Laurie Stevens 29 - 30 Credits 3 Bruce Gordon 31 - 32 Lloyd MacLean 33 - 34 Bill Reid 35 - 36 John Fiske 37 - 38 Jim Wilkie 39 - 40 Jack Flemming 41 - 42 Bob Todd 43 - 44
Section C: The Pioneers The Hydrostones: 1 - 2 Halifax Reconstruction Tidal Power 3 - 5 Tilt-Up 6 - 8
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1862 The Halifax Builders’ society is formed under the The Halifax Club chairmanship of John Brookfield. 1862 1890 Committees form to discuss wages and working conditions with the unions. This marks the start of a more active Association.
1907 The Exchange is registered under the Trades Industrial Act.
1914 The Constructive Mechanical Trades Exchange is incorporated.
Halifax City Hall 1887 St. John Church, Lunenburg The Exchange is registered under the Industrial 1936 1892 Standards Act and the Weekly Pay Act.
The name of the organization is changed to the 1946 Halifax Construction Association.
An invitation is extended to the Architects 1957 Association, the Engineers Association, and the Halifax Board of Trade to join a Committee to work towards the establishment of a ‘bid depository’. Bedford The Association opens its first plans room in 1958 Halifax and begins publishing the Bulletin. Row Firehall 1906
MacDonald Library 1959 The first job is called through the bid depository; 1914 the Dalhousie Men’s Residence (Duffus, Romans & Single).
1960 The name of the Association is changed to the Halifax Dartmouth Construction Association.
Acadia University Hall 1963 The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) 1925 Code of Practice for members is adopted.
1968 The Association name is changed to the Construction Association of Nova Scotia (CANS). A new ‘Construction Centre’ is designed Yarmouth Courthouse (Webber, Harrington & Weld) and contracted 1933 (Stevens & Fiske Construction, Ltd.).
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1969 The Directors approve the appointment of a Macdonald Bridge Labour Relations Officer to meet the demands of 1955 the province-wide labour negotiations.
1970 The Cape Breton Island Association ceases operations; CANS enlarges to include Cape Life Sciences Centre Breton, to represent the entire province. Dalhousie University 1971 The Cape Breton Island Builders Exchange 1972 (CBIBE) is established to operate a plans room in Sydney.
CANS becomes an integrated member 1972 association of the Canadian Construction Association (CCA). The Construction Management Bureau is incorporated, taking over labour relations. The incorporation coincides with amendments to the Trade Union Act which 1972 provides for accreditation in the construction sector.
CANS bylaws and objects are rewritten and 1992 approved. CBIBE officially becomes a division of World Trade and Convention Centre CANS. 1984
The Nova Scotia Construction Safety Association 1994 is incorporated with a responsibility for industry 1997 The plans room and head office are moved to safety training. Dartmouth. The plans room begins operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Camp Hill Veterns Memorial Hospital 1998 CANS begins using the internet for an interactive 1987 membership database and for downloading addenda on projects.
1999 The Bowman award -- named for Earle Bowman -- is instituted for companies that have held continuous membership at CANS for 25 years or more. Millennium 2000 The Construction Information Network (CINet) is Centre established over the internet, enabling viewing of St. Francis Xavier plans and addenda from a project database. 2002
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2003 CANS adopts its first strategic plan and vision statement. The Code of Practice is replaced by a new Statement of Ethics.
2004 CANS implements CANSNet launching a new e-commerce enabled website that provides construction project information for Atlantic Canada.
2005 CANS launches its continuing education program.
2006 CBIBE changes its name to CANS.
2007 CANS partners with the Nova Scotia Community College Foundation to launch CANS Office in Dartmouth (1997) 150th anniversary scholarship campaign.
2008 CANS partners with the Department of Education and NSCC to launch Building Futures for Youth, summer co-op education program for grade 11 students
Martello Tower 2004
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Reprinted from CANS 1993/94 annual report with permission from Bruce MacKinnon
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Reprinted with the permisssion from The Halifax Herald Ltd.
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