Life membership may be granted to current or former CDA members whose lifetime of dedication and achievement has contributed significantly to the dam industry in Canada. The CDA Honours and Awards Committee recommends individual(s) to the Board for receiving Life Membership. Generally, recipients will have retired from active work (beyond occasional individual consulting) and will have been active members of the CDA or its predecessor associations for at least 10 years. Life Membership includes complimentary membership in CDA.
Life Membership Application Form
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Meet Joe Farwell, P.Eng. MBA, 2022 recipient:
Joe joined the engineering staff at the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) in 1988, serving in various roles until retiring as Chief Administrative Office in 2019. As a member of the Ontario Dam Owners Advisory Committee, he worked with several members of the dam community to develop technical guidelines for dam safety in Ontario. Joe joined the board of CDA as the Ontario Director in 2005, going on to become vice president and then president of the Association between 2008-2011. He currently serves on the CDA membership committee. Joe continues to be active in dam management, and has recently returned to the GRCA for a short-term assignment to evaluate their dam safety program, and act as the interim flood director. |
Meet Richard Trimble, M.Sc. (Eng.), FEC, P.Eng., 2022 recipient:
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Meet John Nunn, P. Eng., M.I.C.E., C.Eng., 2022 recipient:
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Meet Jean-Pierre Tournier, P. Eng., Ph. D., FEIC, 2022 recipient:
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The previous honourees are:
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Mr. Trimble is a Principal Consultant with Tetra Tech Canada in Whitehorse YT, specializing in geotechnical and permafrost engineering. He has nearly 45 years of experience including 42 years as Senior Engineer and Office Manager for Tetra Tech’s Yukon Region. In his current role as a Principal Consultant, he continues to undertake site evaluations and engineering design work; dam safety inspections, and provides mentoring and senior review of geotechnical and permafrost engineering services provided by the YT and NWT offices. He has been a member of the CDA for numerous years and served on the Board as the Northern Territories Director from 2014 to 2019 – this included participation on several board committees. He is dedicated to northern engineering and has hoped that his work with CDA has increased the general knowledge of the effects of permafrost on the design and construction of dams in northern Canada.
John retired after a 45-year career in the assessment, design, and construction of hydroelectric and water storage projects in Canada and overseas. He joined CDSA in 1986. 
Educated in Paris and Montréal, Dr. Tournier obtained a PhD from Université of Sherbrooke in 1971. He worked for Hydro Québec, then for Lalonde-Girouard-Letendre (LGL), where he soon became head of the geotechnical department. He established an affiliate LGL company in Haiti and was its president for seven years. He returned to Canada and worked for LGL as responsible for international operations. He rejoined Hydro-Québec and over the next 17 years was promoted to chief engineer of hydroelectric developments. As his international reputation grew, he became a private consultant and an expert consultant to Hydro-Québec’s Engineering Manager. 
