Walter Hull Aldridge (September 8, 1867 – August 8, 1959) was an American mining and metallurgical engineer.
[1][5] As managing director of the company, he established lead and copper works at Trail, British Columbia, built the world's first electrolytic lead refinery, and developed the Hosmer and Bankhead coal mines.
[1][6] Under his watch, gold and silver were melted, smelted, and refined for the first time in Canada.
[11] Aldridge received a William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for distinguished achievement in mining in 1933.
[12] He received a John Fritz Medal in 1949, cited as "as engineer of mines and statesman of industry who by his rare technical and administrative skills has importantly augmented the mineral production of [the United States] and Canada.