Jardin botanique de Montréal
Seventy-five-hectare living museum of themed gardens, ten exhibition greenhouses, and thirty thousand plant species.
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This guide to the Montreal Botanical Garden follows Brother Marie-Victorin, the botanist who spent a decade building these greenhouses with unemployed men off Depression relief rolls, only to find a newly elected premier had leased the grounds to the air force for one dollar in 1940. It traces the public dismissal of his life's work, an accusation leveled at his German-born horticulturist Henry Teuscher, and the fight Marie-Victorin waged to keep both the garden and his colleague standing. Notice how every pane of glass above you survived that year.
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