Hedley S. Fowler was a mining engineer in the Americas, India and Africa from 1933 to 1983. Fowler was born in 1911 in Nelson, British Columbia, a mining town on the west arm of Kootenay Lake. His childhood was spent at Bluebell Mine in B.C. where he commuted to school via bicycle and steamboat. He attended the University of British Columbia from 1928 to 1933 and then went on to work for Cominco (Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company) in Canada and British Guiana. In 1946 he became the general superintendent of Pacific Lime Company and in 1951 he went to work for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical. Fowler traveled through California, Nevada, Florida, Hawaii, India, and Ghana during this period before he went to work for the National Council of Engineering Examiners in 1974. While working for the council he was part of developing the examination to register mining engineers. In this interview, Fowler discusses his childhood in a mining town, family history in the mining industry, University of British Columbia, summer jobs as a laborer, the Depression, Conmico, Pacific Lime Co., Texada Island, B.C., Denver Equipment Co., Kaiser Magnesium, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical, and the National Council of Engineering Examiners.