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34-558: Gwyn Morgan was born on 4 November 1945 to Ieuan (Ian) Morgan (1915–1992) and Margaret Hergenhein (1917–1987). Ieuan was born in Abercynon, Wales , and later settled with his family on a farm near Carstairs, Alberta . Ian served in World War II, and after two brothers, Matthew and Gwynfryn (1922–1944), were both killed, he was given an early discharge. Ian and Margaret had four children: Sheila, Betty, and Glenys, and Gwyn. Gwyn Morgan

68-464: A previous marriage. Abercynon Abercynon ( Welsh pronunciation: [abɛrˈkənɔn] ) is a village and community (and electoral ward ) in the Cynon Valley within the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taf , Wales. The community comprises the village and the districts of Carnetown and Grovers Field to the south, Navigation Park to the east, and Glancynon (or Aber-taf) to

102-503: A quarter of them were francophone. Fellows have been inducted into the academy on the basis of having had careers, given services and made contributions to engineering, the profession and society that surpassed what would normally be considered a successful career in the candidate's field. Election has always been through nomination by existing members, verification by Committee, and voting by the membership. There has also been an underlying obligation that inductees be prepared to contribute to

136-491: A short walk from Abercynon Railway Station. It will include 310 new spaces including seven disabled bays and 15 motorcycle spaces and a bus stop will be added to the existing car park adjacent to the train station to encourage integration between bus and rail services. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council secured £787,000 from the Welsh Government's Local Transport Fund towards the overall cost of £1.2m. Abercynon lies just off

170-517: A supporter and fundraiser for the Conservative Party of Canada was criticized as a possible conflict of interest with the commission's role of eliminating the use of public appointments for partisan patronage purposes. Morgan served as an Honorary Colonel of Canadian Air Force 's 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron. Gwyn is married to Patricia Trottier. They live on Vancouver Island near Victoria, British Columbia . He has one daughter from

204-673: A transport interchange being at the junction of the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Glamorganshire Canal and the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Taff Vale Railway . For a time it was known as "Navigation" and the Navigation Hotel, which was originally the headquarters of the Glamorganshire Canal, still bears this name. Unusually for a village, until early 2008, it had two railway stations . One

238-488: Is a national academy of distinguished professional engineers in fields of engineering , who are elected on the basis of "their distinguished service and contribution to society, to the country and to the profession". Founded in 1987, the academy has over 750 Fellows. The academy's 36-year history has been published on their website. The academy held its founding meeting on 20 May 1987 in Montreal . The honour of being

272-612: Is approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of Cardiff and approximately 40 miles (64 km) from Swansea. The rivers Taff and Cynon converge at Watersmeet near Martin's Terrace. Abercynon used to have many churches, chapels and pubs. There are now only four public houses left - The Thorn Hotel, The Navigation, The Top Club and the Carne Park Hotel. The only churches still left are St. Donat's Church in Wales, its daughter church, St. Gwynno's, St. Thomas' Roman Catholic Church and

306-772: Is the "recipient of the Canadian Business Leader Award from the University of Alberta and the Ivey Business Leader Award from the University of Western Ontario, two Honorary Degrees and an inductee to the Alberta Business Hall of Fame". In 2005 he was named as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). In 2006, Morgan was appointed by Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper to chair

340-785: The A470 road between Pontypridd and Merthyr Tydfil . Other road links include the A472 road which provides a cross valley link to Ystrad Mynach and the A4059 road to Mountain Ash and Aberdare . Abercynon Colliery was sunk by the Dowlais Ironworks in 1889 to supply a steel works in Cardiff. Employing nearly 3000 men and part of the Powell Duffryn empire pre- World War II , it

374-852: The Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Board as a reservoir engineer. In 1969, he joined the Canadian subsidiary of the Northern Natural Gas Company and by 1973 had become its manager of operations and engineering. In October 1975, Morgan joined the Alberta Energy Company. The company had been founded by the Government of Alberta in September 1973, and had begun operating in January 1975. By 1998, he

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408-829: The Business Council of Canada (BCC), which includes CEOs of 150 leading Canadian companies. Along with his service on the Boards of Directors at AEC, Encana, SNC-Lavalin, and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, over the years Morgan has also served as director at Industry Training Authority, Noblegen Inc., the Institute of the Americas , the Council for Canadian Unity , the Fraser Institute ,

442-602: The Manning Centre , American Petroleum Institute , Accenture Energy Advisory Board, Rio Tinto Alcan (Also known as Alcan Inc.) and Lafarge North America Inc. Morgan served as a director of HSBC Bank Canada from December 1996 to May 2012. Morgan was named Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year in 2005. In 2005, he was named as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). According to Bloomberg , he

476-538: The Toronto Stock Exchange —the first energy company to do so since 1980. In 2005, Morgan was listed in 9th place out of 25 in the Globe and Mail' s "The Power 25", running "the continent's biggest natural gas empire, presiding over a critical commodity that powers the grid". In the wake of Hurricane Katrina , the price of gas had increased to become more valuable than oil. By 2005 when Morgan left EnCana,

510-885: The Baptist School, Aberdare providing faith based education. Post-16 education is provided at Coleg y Cymoedd in Nantgarw with other campuses in Aberdare, Rhondda and Ystrad Mynach. Abercynon's rugby league side are called the Valley Cougars and play in the Welsh Conference Premier . The local rugby union team is Abercynon RFC and during the 1970s the team won the Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy on two occasions. Abercynon's suburb of Carnetown has

544-573: The European Regional Development Fund and delivered by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council with capacity for 160 cars and free parking was opened in 2010. Designed by Capita Glamorgan Consultancy and supported by the then Arriva Trains Wales rail franchise and Network Rail, the park-and-ride facility was built on former scrubland situated between the River Taff and Abercynon Station. A new bridge with paved footways either side

578-585: The Methodist church in Martin's Lane. The Church in Wales church is St Gwynno and the Roman Catholic church is St Thomas. A shrine and a grotto were built in 1925 on the bank of the River Taff with links to St Thomas' church. It was the idea of Father Carroll Baillie, the first priest of Abercynon who came to minister to migrant Italian and Irish miners and the small local Welsh catholic population. It

612-472: The University of Alberta website, "widely viewed as the most significant transaction in Canadian energy sector history." As President and CEO, in April 2002, Morgan launched EnCana Corporation's operations with former AEC staff as his management team, making the merger of the two companies more like an "AEC takeover", according to The Globe and Mail . By September 2005, Encana had become the number one company on

646-466: The company "had become North America’s leading independent oil and natural gas production company, with a stock market value of approximately $ 60 billion." Morgan became an Independent Director of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. on March 4, 2005 and from May 2007 through May 2013, he served as Chairman. BY 2005, Morgan was director and a Vice-Chairman of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, now known as

680-496: The currently 26-member independent, non-political international forum for the discussion and communication of engineering issues. In 2000, Micheline Bouchard was elected the first woman president of the CAE. The second, in 2005, was Kathleen Sendall , and the third was Kim Sturgess in 2011. The 44 founding Fellows of the academy included 12 Fellows from academia and 32 from industrial, government and non-profit organizations. Around

714-589: The first member of the academy was accorded to 98-year-old retired engineer and EIC past president, John Stirling . Robert Legget was elected the founding president of the academy, with Philip Lapp as president-elect, Larkin Kerwin as vice-president, and Léopold Nadeau as secretary-treasurer. In September 1991 the Canadian Academy of Engineering formally joined the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS),

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748-509: The life and work of the academy. The first woman to be inducted into the academy, in 1988, was Danielle Zaikoff. The academy announced in 2017 that, partnered with SAE Foundation Canada , it had established two annual student awards aimed at recognizing the importance of aerospace, automotive and transport design engineering. One, the CAE Bruce Aubin SAE Aerospace Design Award , valued at $ 800, and

782-659: The newly-established Public Appointments Commission. The appointment was rejected by opposition MPs due in part to statements Morgan had made linking refugees with crime in Canada . A May 17, 2006 article in the National Post criticized Morgan's opponents asking, "who but the hopelessly politically correct can deny the malign influence of violent gangs from Jamaica, Sri Lanka and East Asia on street life in Toronto, Vancouver and other Canadian urban centres?" His past role as

816-429: The north. The population of Abercynon was recorded as 6,428 in the 2001 Census, decreasing to 6,390 at the 2011 Census, despite more than a hundred additional households built over this period (from 2,582 in 2011 to 2,694 by 2011). The electoral ward of Abercynon includes both the community of Abercynon, but also takes into account the nearby villages of Pontcynon , Ynysboeth and Tyntetown further north. Abercynon

850-440: The town's most successful football team, Carnetown FC, formally Carnetown Boys and Girls Club, with teams from mini age groups under 7's through to two senior teams. Abercynon also has a leisure centre which opened in the 1970s. It is run by RCT Council who invested £1.7 million in 2016. Facilities include a 25-meter swimming pool, a gym, squash courts and sport halls. An all-weather multi use 3G sports pitch at Y Parc Abercynon

884-464: Was built to link the park and ride with Navigation Business Park. A direct access through a new upgraded subway was also provided to Abercynon Station. In 2018 Rhondda Cynon Taf Council announced proposals to expand the Park and Ride scheme at Abercynon Railway Station to provide more than 300 new parking spaces. A new parking facility will be built at Navigation Park, on the former Abercynon Colliery site

918-584: Was built to occupy unemployed miners during the 1926 United Kingdom general strike . The miners used crowbars and ropes to haul huge blocks of stone from the riverbed, then strengthened the banks and terraces with a sloped wall. It was based on the shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Abercynon had a number of nonconformist chapels that were established in the nineteenth century. Most had closed by 2000, including Bethania (Independent), Calfaria (Baptist) and Tabernacle (Calvinistic Methodist). The village

952-832: Was in 1973 joined with the Lady Windsor Colliery at Ynysybwl . Known as the Abercynon Lady Windsor Colliery, it closed in 1988. A memorial marks the location of the colliery in the Navigation Park. Abercynon used to have three primary schools and a secondary school but this has now been reduced to one English medium school and one Welsh medium primary school. Local secondary schools are Pontypridd High School and Mountain Ash Comprehensive School with Cardinal Newman Roman Catholic School, Rhydyfelin and St John

986-761: Was mentioned in Peter C. Newman 's publication, Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power , about "the new Canadian establishment", as a "promising comer to watch." By 2003, Morgan was described in a Maclean' s magazine profile as "the most powerful man in Canada's oil patch." Morgan founded EnCana Corporation and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from April 2002 to December 31, 2005 and as Executive Vice Chairman from December 2005 to October 12, 2006. When Alberta Energy Corporation merged with PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd in 2002 to form EnCana, it was, according to

1020-456: Was named after his late uncle. Gwyn was raised on the family farm and began working at a young age. In 1961, Ian became ill and the Morgan family moved to Calgary for him to receive treatment. After high school, Morgan was accepted into the engineering programme at the University of Alberta, and enrolled in the petroleum options. He graduated in 1967. Morgan's first job after university was with

1054-666: Was on the line from Cardiff to Aberdare , namely Abercynon North . The other, Abercynon South, was on the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil line. Following major work, the North station was closed and its services moved to the South station, now named simply Abercynon . Trains are operated by Transport for Wales as part of the Merthyr Line service. A park and ride scheme funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and

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1088-737: Was once the largest in the South Wales coalfield, but was demolished in 1995. Being built on a steep hillside the height of the pine end wall was over 70 feet from base to roof apex, whilst the front wall was just 35 feet. On 28 October 1913 , a 160 mph (260 km/h) tornado ripped through the Taff valley. It affected nearby settlements, Edwardsville , Treforest and Cilfynydd . Three deaths have been confirmed. Contemporary reports suggest that up to six people died. ^ ^ Canadian Academy of Engineering The Canadian Academy of Engineering ( French : L'Académie canadienne du génie )

1122-484: Was opened by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in 2018. Llancaiach Fawr Manor , a Tudor manor house , lies nearby. The village of Abercynon is also home to the Thorn Hotel, which was once used by Tom Jones to practise his performances. He also used rooms at the now demolished Ynysmeirig Hotel, known locally as "The Spy", one of a number of pubs in the village now no longer in existence. Abercynon Workingmen's Hall

1156-618: Was the terminus of the world's first steam railway journey when on 21 February 1804 the inventor Richard Trevithick drove a steam locomotive hauling both iron and passengers travelled from the Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the basin of the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon. There are memorials to Trevithick's journey at Penydarren and outside the fire station at Abercynon. The village developed as

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