Curious Stories of Canadian Plants Volume 4

In this fourth volume, mainly dedicated to Quebec, the authors present 34 stories highlighting people and teaching and research institutions which, between 1867 and 1935, were concerned with plants for their agricultural, food, ornamental, medicinal, forestry or scientific interests.
Like other women, Carrie Matilda Derick, the first career scientist at a Canadian university, contributed to the development of plant knowledge. Cyrille Vaillancourt, the "second founder" of the Caisses populaires, oversaw the development of the beekeeping and maple products industries. In 1935, Brother Marie-Victorin published Flore laurentienne, the result of sometimes astonishing investigations into Quebec's geographical and plant heritage. During the First World War, prisoners of war cleared an experimental farm near Amos for the agronomic evaluation of plants.
Isn't it nice to unearth plants rooted in our history?