A BRIEF HISTORY
By J. Kenneth Richardson, P.Eng., FSFPE
The Beginning
The seeds for an SFPE Chapter in the Ottawa region were sown in a meeting held January 15, 1981 at the Ottawa offices of the Canadian Wood Council. The four individuals in attendance were Ross Thomson of the Canadian Wood Council, Kurt Brewer of National Defence, Stuart Hornby of the Fire Commissioner of Canada’s office and Ken Richardson of the National Research Council. The group agreed that the formation of a chapter in Ottawa appeared feasible and should be investigated further. The first action of this Organizing Group was to determine the reaction of the SFPE Montreal-Ottawa Chapter (now the St. Laurent Chapter) to the formation of a separate chapter in Ottawa....
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CHAPTER PRESIDENTS
1981-1984 Ken Richardson
1984-1986 Robert Kearney ***
1986-1988 John Berndt
1988-1990 Harold (Hal) Nichol*
1990-1992 Jack Mawhinney
1992-1994 Rod McPhee
1994-1996 Tom Dunfield
1996-1998 Guy Gosselin
1998-2000 Eugene Marotta
2000-2002 Dan Anderson
2002-2004 Guylène Proulx **
2004-2006 George Hadjisophocleous
2006-2008 George Fawcett
2009-2010 Sean Tracey
2011-2012 Ehab Zalok
2013-2014 Robert Salvador
2015-2016 Shawn Young
2016-2018 Mark Ramlochan
2018-2021 Aaron Lee
2021-PRESENT Lindsay Ranger
*Deceased May 1993
**Deceased Dec 2009
*** Deceased October 2012