Celebrating Public Services and Procurement Canada’s history
To mark Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations, Public Services and Procurement Canada is publishing a series of stories throughout 2017 called Celebrating Public Services and Procurement Canada’s history. These stories will highlight the contributions and achievements of the organizations that eventually became part of department. You will meet employees past and present who have contributed to the department’s efforts to support Canadians and build the country we know today.
The series will take you back to the department's beginnings, exploring some of its many significant accomplishments.
Even before Confederation in 1867, the department's predecessors were laying the foundations for the new nation of Canada—from constructing the Parliament Buildings, to surveying the country and opening up vital trade and transportation routes. The Queen's Printer has been publishing the Canada Gazette since 1841 without ever missing a deadline. Translation services, now part of the department, have been vital to the government's functions since the first negotiations between the English and the French.
The series will also remember important historical figures such as:
- Sir Sandford Fleming, Public Works employee and the “father of standard time”
- C.D. Howe, the “minister of everything”
- Joan O'Malley, the young woman who sewed the first Canadian maple leaf flag
Canada 150 is a chance to celebrate the department’s proud history of service to the government and people of Canada.
Telling our story
Previous stories
- A long-lasting relationship with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- The Confederation Bridge: Celebrating 20 years of connecting Canadians
- Our department during the Second World War
- Helping to make the first Canadian flag
- C.D. Howe, the “minister of everything”
- Building and rebuilding Canada’s Parliament Buildings
- Sir Sandford Fleming, Public Works employee and the “father of standard time”
- Who we were, who we are
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