Mrs. Ina Galvin of Bolton Centre, Quebec, was the 2001 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 2001, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On November 29, 1993, her youngest child, Corporal David Patrick Galvin, was killed on duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina while serving with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.

Mrs. Galvin is mother to seven children. Widowed when David was only 13, her eldest son, Chris, already a captain in the army became the father figure. Mrs. Galvin spent her summers running a camp ground.