Dick Tonks. Photo: Janna Dixon
The three time World Rowing coach of the year will lead Canada's high performance programme through to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Tonks left Rowing New Zealand in 2015, following a public spat with the administration over the work he was doing with a crew from China.
He continued to work with single sculler Drysdale and the women's double sculls of Eve MacFarlane and Zoe Stevenson through to the Rio Olympics at the rowers request.
Drysdale won gold in Rio while MacFarlane and Stevenson, world champions in 2015, failed to make the A final.
