The Galbraith Monument Inukshuk
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Cargoman
N 42° 40.659 W 081° 27.178
17T E 462887 N 4725118
This inukshuk is a monument to John Kenneth Galbraith.
Waymark Code: WM5WPQ
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 02/21/2009
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As you know, an Inukshuk is a pile of rocks built by the Innu people to resemble such things as a person, like an elder statesman, or a window to frame a view, to show a trail of good hunting, good fishing spot, or a cache of food.
This particular Inukshuk, built here on Thompson Line, not far from Iona Station, is to honour a great Canadian, John Kenneth Galbraith, and to frame a view of the field that he once plowed.
Mr. Galbraith was born in Iona Station on October 15th, 1908. He was a Canadian-American economist, first educated at The Ontario Agricultural College, and later at U.C. Berkeley, and later still joined the faculty at Harvard University.
Among the awards that he received in his lifetime were The Medal of Freedom (one of the few honourees to receive it twice), the Order of Canada, and India's Padma Vibhushan, their second-highest civilian honour.
This great man passed away on April 29th, 2006 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts of natural causes.
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