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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
you read this, the
66th Annual CGS
Conference
(GeoMontreal - Septem-
ber 29th to October 3rd) will be upon
us. It will be followed immediately by
the
4th Canadian Young Geotech-
nical Engineers and Geoscientists
Conference
in Mount Tremblant
(October 3rd to 6th).
Considerable effort has been expended
by the local organizing committee
of GeoMontreal 2013 to make this a
memorable event, headed by
Mario
Ruel, Sylvain Roy
and the conference
management team headed by
Wayne
Gibson
. The conference promises a
broad technical program made pos-
sible in part by our partnering societies
for this conference; the
Interna-
Geosynthetics Society (NAGS).
A notable CGS event that will be
held during the conference will be
a celebration of the 50th year of the
Canadian Geotechnical Journal
. In
addition, the French version of the
4th Canadian Foundation Engineer-
ing Manual
has been published and
will be available at the conference.
Jean Lafleur
, the lead editor of the
translated version of the manual,
along with his contributing team, will
be honoured at the Awards Banquet
on Tuesday night. Please check the
conference website for information
regarding other events including the
Legget Luncheon, CGS Colloquium
Speaker, Hardy Address and Best
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society