Born in Whitefield , England , in 1900 , Green and his family migrated to Nova Scotia , Toronto , Ontario , Canada and San Francisco , United States , where he witnessed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . The family moved to Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada , where Green attended UBC for two years before transferring to The Massachusetts Institute of Technology , earning both a bachelor 's and master 's degree in electrical engineering in 1924
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Cecil Howard Green