3 ms·

And what about an engineer that drives a train aka railroad engineer? Perhaps that is not common parlance in Canada?

• abe_m 3y ago
  In Ontario (perhaps other provinces as well), train drivers (engineers), and operating engineers, are allowed to continue using the "engineer" name for their jobs, but not "professional engineer". Those two were well established uses of the word engineer before engineering professionalized and became regulated, so they are essentially grandfathered in. Operating engineers are probably more tightly regulated than professional engineers in Ontario. I'm not sure how the regulation on the train drivers compares to the other two groups of "engineers".