John Murray Gibbon (12 April 1875 – 2 July 1952) was a Scottish-Canadian writer and cultural promoter.
He was born in Ceylon on 12 April 1875 the second son of William Duff Gibbon a tea planter and Katherine née Murray.
He immigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
[1] With Sir Ernest MacMillan, he published the four-volume French Canadian Folk Songs (1928).
Gibbon's work was to have a major impact on the creation of a bilingual, multicultural, national culture.