Robert Melville Smith

Robert Melville Smith

Robert Melville Smith (14 October 1887 – 16 November 1950)[1][2] was a civil engineer, who, as deputy minister of the Ontario Department of Highways (now the Ministry of Transportation) between 1928 and 1943, designed and constructed the Queen Elizabeth Way, the first divided intercity highway in North America.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Appointments". Canadian Railway and Marine World. 31: 111. 1928. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Deaths". Roads and Construction. 88. Monetary Times Print Company: 57. 1950. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. ^ Best, John Charles (1991). Thomas Baker McQuesten: Public Works, Politics, and Imagination. Corinth Press. p. 113. ISBN 9780969561309. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  4. ^ "MTO 100 History".
  5. ^ Engineering Journal: Revue de L'ingénierie, Volume 26, 1943, page 157

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