Posts Tagged ‘Montreal history’
Seeds of a City: Paul de Chomedey and the Blooming of Montreal
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 1642 On this day, dear readers, we find ourselves transported to the banks of the St. Lawrence River, where Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, a French military officer, catches his…
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Surgeon to Naturalist Today is the birthday of the first collector and cataloguer of Canadian plant specimens, Naturalist Michel Sarrazin, who was born on this day in 1659. In France, Sarrazin was trained to be a surgeon. By the age of 25, he was appointed to help the troops headed to colonize Canada. When he…
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