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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
1st Prize: Kate Briscoe, Kate
Thompson, Gordon Goode, Kiran-
deep Dhillon
,
“Tailings Management
Facility Design Final Report”
, Civil
Engineering, Queen’s University, Dr.
David Noonan.
2nd Prize: Gavin Black, Savanna
Herman, Shammai Ugalino, Aron
Zahradka
,
“Long Lake Project: Tun-
nel Versus Rock Cut Design Option
Analysis”,
Earth, Ocean & Atmo-
spheric Science, University of British
Columbia, Susan W. Hollingshead.
Canadian Foundation for Geotech-
nique Michael Bozozuk National
Graduate Scholarship – Christopher
Kocur
, Western University.
A.G. Stermac Awards
J. Paul Dittrich
, Principal, Golder
Associates Ltd.
David M. Gauthier
, Senior Geo-
logical Engineer/Geoscientist, BGC
Engineering Inc.
A. Wayne Clifton
, President, Clifton
Associates Ltd..
CGS R.M. Hardy Keynote Address
– Dr. Jean-Marie Konrad,
Profes-
seur, Université Laval.
Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium
– Dr. Greg Siemens
, Associate Pro-
fessor, Queens University.
Cross Canada Lecture Tours – Nick
Sitar
(Spring 2015),
Gordon Fenton
(Fall 2015).
Awards From the Engineering Insti-
tute of Canada (EIC)
Fellowship of the Institute (FEIC)
– Alex Sy
, Vice President, Klohn Crip-
pen Berger.
Fellowship of the Institute (FEIC) –
Mark Diederichs
, Professor, Queens
University.
Provided by Lisa McJunkin,
CGS Administration
CGS Membership Registration
for 2016
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offers our profession.
Members in the News
The Canadian Geotechnical
Society Presents its
First Honorary Life Membership
to Mr. Gordon C. McRostie
At the 68th Annual Conference of
the Canadian Geotechnical Society
in Quebec City,
Mr. Gordon C.
McRostie
P.Eng. was honoured by the
CGS and his Ottawa colleagues with
the Society’s first Honorary Life Mem-
bership. CGS President
Mr. Doug
VanDine
told the approximately 650
in attendance at the presentation that
“Gordon exemplifies a life-long contri-
bution and dedication to the Canadian
Geotechnical Society and to the geo-
technical profession in Canada”.
Gordon McRostie graduated with a
civil engineering degree from the Uni-
versity of Toronto in 1944. In 1950, he
began his own geotechnical engineer-
ing practice in Ottawa, one of the
first geotechnical consulting firms in
Canada. By 1960 he had a small staff,
a soil testing laboratory, a drill rig, and
was carrying out about 50 projects per
year. His consulting practice continued
to grow and has carried out a total of
approximately 3,000 projects mostly
in eastern Canada, but several abroad,
including the Canadian embassy in
Berlin, Germany. In 2005, his firm
merged with Golder Associates Ltd.
In 1961, Gordon helped form the
Geo-
technical Engineering Division of
the Engineering Institute of Canada
,
which in 1972 became the
Cana-
dian Geotechnical Society.
In 1963,
Gordon was one of 10 geotechnical
professionals who financially backed
the first year of the
Canadian Geo-
technical Journal
, a journal that is
now in its 52nd year and recognized as
one of the best geotechnical journals
in the world.
In 1947, Gordon helped organize in
Ottawa, the
1st Canadian Confer-
ence on Soil Mechanics and Founda-
tion Engineering
, the forerunner of
the CGS Annual Conference. He was
one of forty to attend that event and
has since attended 66 of the 68 CGS
annual conferences. He was on the
organizing committees of a number of
those conferences and now 93 years
old, Gordon is on the organizing com-
mittee of the 70th CGS Annual Con-
ference to be held in Ottawa in 2017.
A recipient of many awards, Gordon
was presented in 1997 with the highest
award of the Canadian Geotechni-
cal Society, the
R.F. Legget Medal
,
