Canada History Week 2018: Science, Creativity and Innovation

Julia Willmothe Henderson (Henshaw) was a writer, photographer, journalist, mountaineer and botanist. Her books, Mountain wild flowers of America and Wild flowers of the North American mountains, were the first North American guides to alpine plants. They were innovative in the use of photographs rather than lithographs, and the contents were arranged according to colour of the blossoms rather than in taxonomic order (used for many plant guides), or, like Traill’s Canadian wildflowers, according to the seasons. (Image credit Wikimedia Commons)

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HOMEWARD BOUND

Mother Nature Needs Her Daughters

David Takayoshi Suzuki is a geneticist, broadcaster, and environmental activist. A Canadian of Japanese parentage, Suzuki was interned with his family during the Second World War and later became one of Canada’s most popular scientists and media personalities. (Image Credit: The Canadian Press/ ©E1 Films Canada/courtesy Everett Collection.)

Homeward Bound rallies scientists to join the climate change fight. Their all-female expeditions to the Antarctic champion collaboration, connection, and leadership in science.

Shelley Ball

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