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Our 50th Anniversary Paper

Some members of a successful team

They are part of Dawson business strategy The story of the Dawson Group is essentially one of teamwork. According to Graham Dawson, its growth history is largely due to the calibre of personnel at all levels. In fact, one of his prime business strategies is to build on the se

Fifty years of achievement in construction

Fifty years is a long span in anyone's lifetime. In a province as young as British Columbia, it also amounts to an impressive slice of history. That being so, the Dawson Group of Companies has much to celebrate. Dawson's 50 years of operation in the construction industry have

In a world of individualists, founder was also engineer

"Certainly, it was important from my personal point of view that my father as a young engineering graduate came West and hung his shingle out in Kamloops as a B.C. land surveyor," Graham Dawson reflects. "At that time he was one of the few general contractors who was also a p

Driving force

GRAHAM DAWSON, at 46, has been active in construction for 30 years. A lean, lithe man with a keen sense of the essential, he is both practical and professional. Dawson worked his way up from truck driver to his present position. He drove an asphalt distributor truck- one o