The PPO was found founded in 1950 the 1950’s as a fight band. It's main goal was to promote school spiritgroup at varsity sport games. Over the 1970's to 80's pranking started to become a new trademark of the PPO. Pranks escalated to some very extravagant ones such as painting the arts dome orange, stealing the gorilla from the Redpath Museum and replacing all the front covers of the McGill Daily. The PPO's final and most infamous prank was unbolting all 800 seats in the Leacock 132 auditorium. This lead led to 10% of McGill's lectures being cancelled canceled and the [[Engineering Undergraduate Society|EUS]] being send sent a bill of $1003.95 (over $4000 in today's dollarscurrency). Given Shortly after the incident, prank the PPO was disbanded.

A few years later in In the late 80's 1980’s the Plumber's Philharmonic Orchestra PPO was rebooted reinvigorated with a new and more wholesome mandate of promoting engineering leadership, raising both money for charity and school spirit. Ever since then the PPO has worked to build exciting events to raise spirit and involvement with only money simultaneously, a tribute to the occasional prank or tworowdy culture of its past.

 =CharityCurrent Acitivities=The Plumber's Philharmonic Orchestra runs PPO has remained an active group within the EUS, promoting engineering culture at McGill events. From hosting rowdy day, the final Blues Pub of the semester, to loonie lines the PPO has strived to provide for those less fortunate while engaging in fun and participates spirited events. The PPO always encourages those who are not members to participate in many charity their events throughout , as everyone is able to help in some way. To get more involved with the PPO check out some of the events that they do each year such as the , ranging from Loonie LineLines, Relay for Life and , Golden Valentines. They also host two [[Blues Pub|Blues Pubs]], known as Movember, Breakfast Crawls, and Rowdy Day, where all profits are donated to charity.