. Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1918. f draftsman and pattern-making superintendent. While much ofMr. McShanes success is no doubt dueto the guiding influence and tuition ofhis father who held the position beforehim, it is no disparagement to his par-ent to remark that the developments ofrecent years have brought greatly iji-creased responsibilities and demanded adegree of judgment and resource large-ly exceeding the old days when ourSpoke was absorbing the rudiments ofhis lifework. The day schools of St. John were hissource of knowledge until the start ofhis appren
. Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering January-December 1918. f draftsman and pattern-making superintendent. While much ofMr. McShanes success is no doubt dueto the guiding influence and tuition ofhis father who held the position beforehim, it is no disparagement to his par-ent to remark that the developments ofrecent years have brought greatly iji-creased responsibilities and demanded adegree of judgment and resource large-ly exceeding the old days when ourSpoke was absorbing the rudiments ofhis lifework. The day schools of St. John were hissource of knowledge until the start ofhis apprenticeship with McAvitys in1883, at the age of eighteen. Theregular 5-year period of training wasgone through by Mr. McShane, and thefact that this formative period of hislife was spent under the supervision ofhis father has doubtless been a matter of mutual benefit to our Spoke and hisemployers on many occasions Mr. McShane reasoned that apart of the country which was goodenough for a firm like McAvity (theyhad been established almost half a cen-. WILLIAM JAMES McSHANE. tury when he joined them) was quitegood enough for him, and the determina-tion to do well whatever came to hishand accounts for following the ex-ample of his employers and becomingalso, so far as lay in his power, longestablished. The name of McAvity is a householdword in the Maritimes, as will be gath-ered from the nature of their in 1837, they developed withthe country, operating the Vulcan IronWorks and a separate plant devoted tobrass work, producing plumbers, steamfitters and engineers supplies whilerecently a machine shop of considerablesize has been rendered necesiary to meet their requirements. The wide fieldof activity open to a studious, resource-ful and energetic person in the positionfilled by our Spoke is apparent, and thatMr. McShane fully availed himself ofthe opportunities offered is evidencedby the numerous inventions, etc., in thevarious lines produced b
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