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i l 14 Many pcoplu ha" ' 'clt then two L'an" to Canada < nanonul unll)’dEh1|lC Hunm‘crrarm nuttw Bcth McEJchcn has gtvcn hcr quarter. 'Ihc Itlcvlong lncal fCSlthnl. now a firslryt'ar student at Ich Ontartn College 0| Art. in Toronto, was on hand Thursday night In Yellowknife, NWT. for the in, Lmduction ol the second of a dozen 25-ccnt cnins to mark the 1251h anniversary of Confederation, Thc Canada 125 nmgram secs the unveiling of one of Lhc 12 quarters, l0 reprcscnl. each pro- vince and territory. cash month in a ceremony in the respective capital. The sct's $1 coin, repre- Scnting Canadaasawholc,willbc introduced in July in Ottawa. Ms. McEachen's winning Northwest Ten-itones design of a pie-historic Inuit stone structure, an inukshuk. was one of 11,003 overall designs received injustsrx weeks, Supply and Services Mi- nister Paul Dick told the Yellowkr ntfc gathering. Of those, 612 were about the Northwest Ten-ttones, BETH McEACHEN'S deslgn 01 an Inult stone structure, known as an lnukshuk. Is now shown on the second 01 12 quarter colns whlch are balng released to mark the 125th anniversary or Conlederallon. Ms. Beth McEachen’S artistry highlighted on new coin BETH McEACHEN Ms McBichen, 19. said she has long been impressed by the inuk- shuk and can remember an elementary school geography les- son when she first learned about the phenomenon. “These structures are. remark- able and so visually interesting," she said, “and I think the coin itself looks fantastic," The inukshuk data; from about 1200 AD, but may go back as far as 2500 BC. The heaviest cort- McEachen was In Yellowknlte, N.W.T. Thurs- day Ior the unvelllng oi the new coln, whlch lealures her lnlllals as pan of the mom, and Is now avallahle. tcntrzllnnt tltn lx‘ Inund :tt Enuksu l‘nnn un liIL‘ muthwcst chmt-r nl' Batllm |s1ttm|.wht~rc thcrcnrc sllli :tlunn lllo, mine lllC‘JSUI’IHg man: than hm lllUUt‘h high. "Whnl lfl.\[7|l'l3ti my dcxlgn‘1 l \‘znzllt'ly rcnmnbcrcd 1| primary school geography lesson whurc wt‘ lcnmcd that in the Northwest TCrrlit‘rlm ubovt a ccrunn longi- tude the ground ts always lrozcn tnnl cannot grow," said Ms. MrE ht‘n. a graduate of lloly Family School in Hanover and Sacred Heart High School in Wnlkcrton. “To know where they were going, the lntnt htnll Inndv marks out uf stones" Joining Ms. McEnchcn and Mr, Ditk at the Ycllowknil'c ccrc- many were the Dctuth Drummers of Lhc Dene community and the Yellowknife Youth Chorr. The nickel coin is now availr able at banks and other financial tnstiluLiorls across Canada. As well, the Royal Canadian Mint will be selling each of the 12 dil‘lercnt Canada 125 quarters and the dollar coin in prowl collector versions, I??;