1970 Fredericton Encaenia
Gamble, Samuel Gill
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: MacNutt, W. Stewart
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L to R: Sir Max Aitken, Samual Gill Gamble
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Source: UA PC-4a no.3(10); Photo by Joe Stone
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1970
SAMUEL GILL GAMBLE
to be Doctor of Science
This is the tenth anniversary of the inception of the formal study of Surveying Engineering as a distinctive discipline at the University of New Brunswick and it is most fitting that we honour the man most prominently responsible. A native of Ottawa with a distinguished career in the Army and the Civil Service, Mr. Gamble became Chief Topographical Engineer in the Surveys and Mapping Branch of the Department of Mines and Technical Services in 1955. His great ambition was the production of more highly trained surveying engineers. The encouragement he gave to the University of New Brunswick in 1960 has resulted by 1970 in the graduation of over one hundred holders of degree and diplomas in Surveying Engineering. Two doctors of the discipline, trained by standards that have gained international reputation, stand before us today as testimony of his zeal for the improvement of his profession.
As leader of over one thousand employees engaged in one of the largest surveying and mapping organizations in the world, as a founder of the profession of surveying engineering in Canada, as the maker of the first topographical map of Canada on the gigantic scale of 1:250,000, Mr. Gamble becomes a distinguished addition to the alumni of the University.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
SAMUEL GILL GAMBLE
to be Doctor of Science
This is the tenth anniversary of the inception of the formal study of Surveying Engineering as a distinctive discipline at the University of New Brunswick and it is most fitting that we honour the man most prominently responsible. A native of Ottawa with a distinguished career in the Army and the Civil Service, Mr. Gamble became Chief Topographical Engineer in the Surveys and Mapping Branch of the Department of Mines and Technical Services in 1955. His great ambition was the production of more highly trained surveying engineers. The encouragement he gave to the University of New Brunswick in 1960 has resulted by 1970 in the graduation of over one hundred holders of degree and diplomas in Surveying Engineering. Two doctors of the discipline, trained by standards that have gained international reputation, stand before us today as testimony of his zeal for the improvement of his profession.
As leader of over one thousand employees engaged in one of the largest surveying and mapping organizations in the world, as a founder of the profession of surveying engineering in Canada, as the maker of the first topographical map of Canada on the gigantic scale of 1:250,000, Mr. Gamble becomes a distinguished addition to the alumni of the University.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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