The Governor General's Northern Medal was created by Adrienne Clarkson on September 15, 2005, to provide awards to those who serve with distinction in Canada's north.
The medal was designed by Cathy Bursey-Sabourin and the design consists of:
- Snowy owl - guardian spirit
- Aurora borealis - scope of the North
- Canadian Arctic Diamond - the North Star
A list of winners of this medal:
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2005 - As chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Watt-Cloutier was dedicated to create attention to the problems of global warming and the Arctic
- Nellie Cournoyea
- Georges Erasmus
Famous quotes containing the words governor, general and/or northern:
“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“We all have known
Good critics, who have stamped out poet’s hopes;
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state;
Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause;
Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax;
Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs;
And damned the general world for standing up.—
Now, may the good God pardon all good men!”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“... in Northern Ireland, if you don’t have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)