Donald W. Whitmore, P. Eng.

Vector Construction Group
474 Dovercourt Drive
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3Y 1G4
Ph: 204.489.6300
Fax: 204.489.6033
Email: donw@vectorgroup.com

Born and raised in Neepawa, Manitoba, Mr. Donald Whitmore attended the University of Manitoba where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. He continued his studies at the University of Western Ontario where he earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Currently President of the Vector Construction Group, Mr. Whitmore has spent his entire career in the construction industry. In 1965, along with two partners, he started his own firm that specialized in highway grading in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Upon the retirement of his partners in 1980, Mr. Whitmore diversified the operations of his firm to include site development work, concrete restoration and protection, and other specialized industrial activities, in addition to the traditional highway contracting. Today, specialized structural concrete repair and restoration accounts for over 80 percent of Vector’s revenue. The firm has developed recognized expertise across North America in the mitigation of corrosion of reinforcing steel in reinforced concrete. Vector Construction Group maintains its head office in Winnipeg and offices in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Spruce Grove, Alberta; Thunder Bay and Hamilton, Ontario; Fargo, North Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

In 1996, The Construction Innovation Forum, an international non-profit organization based in Detroit, Michigan, presented Mr. Whitmore’s firm with its prestigious “NOVA” Award for innovation in recognition of the Norcure process of electrochemical chloride extraction from concrete as implemented by Vector.

Involved with construction association work for most of his career, Mr. Whitmore has served on the boards of regional, provincial, national and international associations. He was the 1994 Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Construction Association. He is a Past President of the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association and a former Executive Committee member of both the Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association of Saskatchewan and the Western Canada Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association. Mr. Whitmore also served 18 years as a Governor of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, retiring in 2000.

He and his wife Florence reside in Winnipeg. They have four children and eleven grandchildren.

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