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Various Roles

Railway and Harbor Contractor, Bank of Toronto Building, Toronto, Ontario. He also served as President, Assured Agency Ltd., Vice-Chairman, Realty Mortgages Ltd., President, Bartram Construction Co., Limited, Vice-President, National Shipbuilding Co., Director of Toronto, Furniture Company, President, Spardon Electric Co., Limited, Vice-President, General Construction Co., President, Shellbar-Boyco Supply Co., Limited, President, Bartram & Ball Lumber Company.

Early Life

Vivian Turnill Bartram, also known as V. T. Bartram, (August 2, 1878-April 1955), son of Joseph Thomas Bartram, who worked for the Canadian Government as a Surveyor of Customs, Ottawa, Ontario, and Janet MacLardy, of Saint John, NB. V.T. Bartram spent the greater part of his professional life constructing roads, bridges, and harbours. Attended school in Ottawa, Collegiate Institute.

Bridges and Harbours-Ontario

Mr. Bartram constructed many harbours on Lake Erie, Port Stanley, Port Burwell, Port Bruce, Rondeau, Cobourg, Port Hope, and the Western Gap, in Toronto.

Bridges and Harbours-New Brunswick

Cape Tormentine, Shediac, Saint John Harbour.

'''Bridges and Harbours-Nova Scotia ''' Louisburg, Fourchu, Arichat, Grand Etang, Cheticamp, Margaree, and South River.

Bridges, Harbours, Railway and Roads-P.E.I.

Charlottetown Railway, Murray Harbour, Rustico.

'''Work performed for Canadian Government ''' Mr. Bartram represented the Ontario Government that saw his company build forty miles of the St. Lawrence subdivision of the C.N.R., between the Quebec Bridge and Portneuf; built the St. Pauline deviation on the C.N.R. Main Line, east of Montreal, in 1921; He constructed three bridges on the Toronto-Hamilton Highway, entrance into Hamilton, besides many works of lesser importance.

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