Fonds 1202 - Vernon Russell Davies fonds

Vernon Russell Davies was born in 1890 in Sheffield, England and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1891, settling in Minnedosa, Manitoba. After high school graduation he studied engineering at the University of Manitoba enrolling in 1914. In 1916, he enlisted in the Western University Battalion of the World War I Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served in France and Germany and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918.

After returning to Canada in 1918, he studied at McGill University graduating with a Master of Science. He taught engineering at the University of Manitoba, Queen's University and the Royal Military College until the mid 1940s. He joined the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering as a special lecturer in 1944, instructor and demonstrator. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he ran the Vernon Davies Tutorial School providing educational assistance to anyone planning to take the Ontario Land Surveyors exams. He left the University in 1961. He died on April 2, 1983 at age 93.