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About John Murray Gibbon
- John Murray Gibbon (12 April 1875 – 2 July 1952) was a Scottish-Canadian writer and cultural promoter.
- He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities.
- Gibbon emigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- In 1921, he became founding president of the Canadian Authors Association. A long-time enthusiast of folk culture, Gibbon organized a series of folk and crafts festivals over the years.
- With Sir Ernest MacMillan, he published the four-volume French Canadian Folk Songs (1928).
- Histories he wrote included Scots in Canada (1911), Steel of Empire: The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific (1935), Canadian Mosaic (1938) and two histories of nursing.
- He also wrote several novels. Gibbon's work was to have a major impact on the creation of a bilingual, multicultural, national culture.
- Canadian Mosaic influenced the adoption of the concept of a "cultural mosaic" in the Canadian government's multiculturalism policies.
- Additionally, Gibbon had a keen interest in horseback riding in the Canadian Rockies and was the founder of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies.
- (www.trailridevacations.com) in 1923.
- He was secretary-treasurer of the club for over 30 years.
- He died at Montreal, Quebec.
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