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 recipient of the Victoria Cross

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, see Mark Walker

Mark Walker

For the fisher and songwriter with the same name, see Mark Walker . For the Canadian Ethicist, see Mark Alan WalkerGeneral Sir Mark Walker VC KCB was born in Gore Port, Finea, County Westmeath in Ireland...

. For the Canadian Ethicist, see Mark Alan Walker

Mark Alan Walker

Mark Alan Walker, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Prior to his professorship at NMSU Prof. Walker taught at McMaster University in the department of philosophy and...

Mark Walker (1846–1924) was a fisherman and songwriter from Tickle Cove

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, Bonavista Bay

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, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador

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). He is best remembered for writing the song "Tickle Cove Pond

Tickle Cove Pond

Tickle Cove Pond was written by Mark Walker , a fisherman and song-writer who lived in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland, Canada during the late 19th century. This song is prized locally for the beauty and wit of the lyrics, which turn a mundane event into an act of heroism...

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Mark Walker was born in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay

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, Newfoundland and Labrador

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 in 1846. He married Mary Downey of Coachman's Cove on August 30, 1873, and moved to Sweet Bay, Bonavista Bay

Bonavista Bay

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 around 1875. There he worked as a fisherman, a boat builder, and the first postmaster of Sweet Bay.

Some of the songs written by Mark Walker include:

• Tickle Cove Pond
  Tickle Cove Pond
  Tickle Cove Pond was written by Mark Walker , a fisherman and song-writer who lived in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland, Canada during the late 19th century. This song is prized locally for the beauty and wit of the lyrics, which turn a mundane event into an act of heroism...
  
  
• The Antis of Plate Cove
• Fanny's Harbour Bawn
• Girls From Sweet Bay
• Nellie Neil
• My Little Kettle
• Down By Jim Long's Stage

Some of Mark Walker's relatives have asserted that Walker also wrote "The Star of Logy Bay," and that the song was originally called "Love's Lamentations."

It is believed that Mark Walker wrote all of his songs before he moved to Boston in 1906.