Michael Bozozuk (1929-2020), who recently passed away, obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba (M.Sc. in 1953). He spent his entire career in the Soil Mechanics Section of the Division of Building Research, National Research Council, in Ottawa, retiring in 1989. During the 1960s, Michael took an academic leave to work on his PhD from Purdue University. His main fields of research included soil compaction, subsidence of foundations, and swelling, shrinkage, bearing capacity and resistance of clays. During the mid-1980s, Michael was Executive Director of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He served as CGS President during 1987 and 1988, and President of the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique from 1999 to 2004. Michael was the recipient of a number of EIC and CGS awards and honours, including the CGS‘s most prestigious award, the R.F. Legget Award (now medal) in 1994. The Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique’s National Graduate Scholarship is named in his honour.