{"id":238154,"date":"2015-01-13T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/co-operative-pioneer-peter-murdoch-named-to-the-order-of-canada\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:14:53","slug":"co-operative-pioneer-peter-murdoch-named-to-the-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/co-operative-pioneer-peter-murdoch-named-to-the-order-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-operative Pioneer Peter Murdoch named to the Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Governor General announced Peter Murdoch\u2019s appointment on December 26.&nbsp; Mr. Murdoch was a veteran Hudson\u2019s Bay Co. clerk who helped start the co-op movement in Nunavik.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch is receiving the honour for \u201chis contributions to the economic development of the northern regions of Quebec as a driving force behind the co-operative movement,\u201d a Rideau Hall press release said.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Newfoundland, he moved to the arctic as a young man when he was hired by Hudson\u2019s Bay Co. to work as a clerk in Kimmirut. He also worked in Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kangirsuk, Puvirnituq and Kuujjuaq.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to develop financial systems for co-ops that sprang up in Kuujjuaq, Kangirsuk, Kangiqsualujjuaq and other communities.<\/p>\n<p>In 1967, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des coop\u00e9ratives du Nouveau-Qu\u00e9bec was founded and Murdoch became its first general manager, serving in that job until his retirement in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch will be inducted into the Order of Canada at a ceremony to be held at Rideau Hall some time in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Governor General announced Peter Murdoch\u2019s appointment on December 26.&nbsp; Mr. Murdoch was a veteran Hudson\u2019s Bay Co. clerk who helped start the co-op movement in Nunavik. Murdoch is receiving the honour for \u201chis contributions to the economic development of the northern regions of Quebec as a driving force behind the co-operative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238364,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238154\/revisions\/238364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}