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Geotechnical News • June 2017
CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
mittee
in Vancouver, we are in the
preliminary stages of determining if
there is enough interest in co-sponsor-
ing a workshop or speciality session
with the
Rock Mechanics Division
and/or the
Education Committee
(two different sessions). I would
welcome your input as to the type of
workshop or speciality session that
would be of interest to you as well any
suggested speakers. I will then contact
the appropriate conference organiz-
ers to schedule the sessions. Please
contact me,
Nicholas Vlachopoulos
,
at
or at (613) 541-6000
x 6398
Submitted by Nicholas Vlachopoulos
Division Chair – Engineering Geology
Division
Committee News
Heritage Committee
Canadian Geotechnical Society
Virtual Archives
There are rich but rarely used
resources in Canada that consist of
files containing historical information
on geotechnical laboratory and field
research, geotechnical investigations,
work of committees and geotechnical
expertise. Ways to identify and use
these resources have been developed
by the Heritage Committee of the
Canadian Geotechnical Society in the
form of virtual archives on the CGS
web site, where the location and con-
tent of accessible historical geotechni-
cal material are given.
CGS members and others are invited
to submit candidate material for con-
sideration. The submission should give
the location of the material, a descrip-
tion of its nature and content, its his-
torical significance and the conditions
under which it can be accessed. Do
not submit physical archival material
as the Society has no space to store it,
however electronic copies of photo-
graphs or materials are welcome.
Your contribution to the CGS Virtual
Archives web page should be sent to
the Chair of the Heritage Committee,
Heinrich Heinz
, P.Eng. at
hheinz@
thurber.ca.
Editor
Don Lewycky, P.Eng
Tel.: 780-478-4156
Email:
