death_date birth_place awards birth_date article_title name occupation
22 march 2001 montreal , quebec order of canada 16 february 1910 robert fletcher shaw
 robert fletcher shaw civil engineer
robert fletcher shaw

robert fletcher shaw , -lrb- february 16 , 1910 -- march 22 , 2001 -rrb- was a canadian businessman , academic , civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the universal and international exhibition of 1967 .
born in montreal , he was raised in revelstoke , british columbia .
he received a degree in engineering from mcgill university in 1933 .
in 1937 he started as an engineer with the foundation company of canada , rising to become its president .
after expo , he was vice-principal of administration at mcgill university until 1971 .
he then became canada 's first deputy minister of the environment .
in 1975 he became president of the engineering institute of canada .
he retired in 1985 .
in 1967 he was made a companion of the order of canada .
in 1935 he married johann macinnes .
their only son , robert jr. , a commercial airline pilot , was killed in a plane crash in 1966 .
