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Location: St. Julien Road and Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff
Emplacement : Chemin St. Julien et promenade Tunnel Mountain, Banff
Coordinates · Coordonnées: 51.173558, -115.562697
Source: Parks Canada – Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada commemorative plaques (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
Licence · Permission: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
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John Murray Gibbon

Born in Ceylon and educated in Scotland and Germany, Gibbon studied painting before turning to journalism. As publicity agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1913 to 1945, he combined advertising with the promotion of a Canadian identity, popularizing the image of Canadian society as a mosaic. He organized folk culture festivals and was instrumental in establishing the “Trail Rider of the Canadian Rockies” at Banff. A prolific author of novels, lyrics, history and social commentary, Gibbon helped found the Canadian Authors’ Association in 1921.

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John Murray Gibbon

Gibbon naquit au Ceylan, fit ses études en Écosse et en Allemagne et étudia la peinture avant de s’adonner au jounalisme. Dans l’exercise de ses fonctions de publicitaire pour le Canadien Pacifique, de 1913 à 1945, il se fit le propagandiste de l’identité canadienne et répandit la notion de la mosaïque culturelle canadienne. Il organisa des festivals folkloriques et contribua à l’établissement des Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies à Banff. Auteur prolifique de romans, de poèms et de commentaires historiques et sociaux, Gibbon participa à la création de la Canadian Authors’ Association en 1921.