A national honour for the former Director of the Great Lakes and International Marine Training Centre at Georgian College in Owen Sound.
Archie Dickson received Transport Canada’s Marine Safety Award on Monday in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Canadian marine safety.
The award was presented to him at a ceremony held in Ottawa at the biannual meeting of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council by Federal Transport Minister John Baird.
For over two decades, Dickson was instrumental in developing and delivering high-quality training for seafarers at Georgian College.
He also led an ambitious and unprecedented move to state-of-the-art marine simulator training.
As a result, the college now has the most technologically advanced marine simulator training centre in North America.