Charles Hershfield
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| Born | December 24, 1910 Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada |
| Died | March 11, 1990 Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Education |
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Toronto 1950 |
| Spouse(s) | Janet Hershfield |
| Engineering career | |
| Practice name | Morrison Hershfield |
| Projects |
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre, assisted with complex roof design, 1957. |
| Awards |
Elected into the Engineering Institute of Canada Fellows (F.E.I.C), 1974. |
B.Sc., Civil Engineering,
University of Manitoba 1930
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre, assisted with complex roof design, 1957.
Elected into the Engineering Institute of Canada Fellows (F.E.I.C), 1974.
Charles Hershfield, B.Sc., M.A.Sc, F.E.I.C, P.Eng. (1910–1990) was widely recognized by the engineering community and known for his innovative structural engineering solutions, as a senior assistant engineer and lieutenant with the Department of National Defense, a professor at the University of Toronto, as co-founder of the North American firm Morrison Hershfield, and as a prolific author. He was a lifelong advocate of education and the engineering profession.
Hershfield' parents Aaron and Molly Hershfield left Teofipol, Ukraine in the mid-1890s for Manitoba, Canada in search of greater opportunities and in the hopes of starting a family. On December 24, 1910 their son Charles Hershfield was born. As a child and later in his teens, Hershfield's interests resided in music, baseball, carpentry, and mechanical engineering. He attended St. John’s High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and even from a young age, highly valued his education.
Hershfield later studied engineering at the University of Manitoba. Working with two of his classmates, H.F. Peters and W. Gruber, Hershfield submitted the thesis “Some Tests of Welded Joints”. Hershfield graduated in 1930 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in civil engineering.
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