High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Les Wardrop started Wardrop Engineering Inc. in 1955 with the founding principle to establish an enterprise that valued its people above everything else. In fact, Les guaranteed his first group of employees a job for a year and put his own money on the line to form the first consulting company in Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada. Initial projects consisting primarily of public works engineering and residential subdivision servicing. Building upon early successes, Wardrop opened a second office in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada in 1956.