Wilson was appointed Secretary of the
Air Board in 1920, Assistant Director and Secretary of the
Royal Canadian Air Force in 1923, Controller of Civil Aviation in 1927 and Director of Air Services in 1941. He retired from public service in 1945. For his services during the
Second World War, Wilson was appointed a CBE in 1945 and was decorated by Norway. He received the Julian C. Smith Memorial Medal of the
Engineering Institute of Canada in 1944 and the
Trans-Canada Trophy the same year. His son
John Tuzo Wilson was a prominent geophysicist and geologist. == References ==