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)
“The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first half [of] my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery and secondly to destroy it.... The second half of my political life has been to rebuild, and to get rid of the despotic and corrupting tendencies and the animosities of the war, and other legacies of slavery.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)