{"id":7308,"date":"2025-05-27T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:39:20","slug":"john-kenneth-galbraith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/john-kenneth-galbraith\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kenneth Galbraith Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebebeb\"><em>You can find posts about my <strong>25 km from WTF<\/strong> adventures <em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/category\/25km-from-wtf\/\">here<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em> <br><em>or visualize them on this <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/edit?mid=1Eo5IU12sEHZFhl88EwjB-hLiFI5Qe3xv&amp;usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting alongside a dusty back road near Iona Station stands an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuksuk\">Inuksuk<\/a>, a memorial to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kenneth_Galbraith\">John Kenneth Galbraith<\/a>. He was a Canadian-American economist, ambassador and advisor to Presidents. He wrote several books on economics that were bestsellers in the second half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born along this stretch of Thomson Line in 1908. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elgincounty.ca\/ElginCounty\/CulturalServices\/Archives\/tweedsmuir\/Wallacetown%20Vol%208\/page%20338%20-%20351.pdf\">memorial<\/a> was erected in 2003 a few years before Galbraith passed away at the age of 97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galbraith was a prolific author and even wrote a book (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/scotch00galb_0\/mode\/2up\">&#8220;The Scotch&#8221;<\/a>) about people and places around the farm where he was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting alongside a dusty back road near Iona Station stands an Inuksuk, a memorial to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/john-kenneth-galbraith\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Kenneth Galbraith Memorial<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-25km-from-wtf","excerpt","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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