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Toronto Garden History: A Selected Bibliography
Bibliography compiled by Norma Lundberg, volunteer October 2003

BOOKS (R indicates Reference copy)

I. National and Regional scope with references to Toronto gardens:

Crawford, Pleasance. The Ontario Home Landscape: 1890-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, 1981. (712.09 C66)

Dodds, Philip F. & Markle, H.E. comps.; Ontario Horticultural Assoc. The Story of Ontario Horticultural Societies. Picton Gazette Publishing, 1973. (630.6 D57)

The Garden Clubs of Ontario. Garden Clubs of Ontario: 1997. (635.09 G135)

Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: the Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Trail. Toronto ON: Penguin, 1999. (920 G67)

Martin, Carol. A History of Canadian Gardening. Toronto ON: McArthur & Co., 2000. (635.09 M14)

Minhinnick, Jeanne. "Gardens, dooryards and verandahs" p. 1-16 in At Home in Upper Canada. Toronto ON: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1970. (390 M38)

von Baeyer, Edwinna. Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening 1900-1930. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984. (635.09 V57)

von Baeyer, Edwinna, and Pleasance Crawford (eds.) Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing. (820 G14)

II. Toronto Gardens:

Bryce, Elizabeth M. (ed.) The Civic Garden Centre in Metropolitan Toronto, 1958-1997: a history. [Toronto]: Garden Club of Toronto, 1997. [50 pp.] (R 971 C9 c.2)

Langdon, Eustella, Pioneer Gardens at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. (712.7 L12)

Metropolitan Toronto & Region Conservation Authority. Nature's Pharmacy: A Doctor's Medicinal Garden at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Toronto: MTRCA, 1978. (712.7 M26)

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Adams, Ann. "Volunteers Recreate Heritage Garden." [Colborne Lodge in High Park] Trellis, July/August 2003, 20-21.

Fischer, Ron. "The Development of the Garden Suburb in Toronto." Journal of Garden History (Special Canadian Issue) vol. 3 no. 3 July-September 1983, 193-207. [illus.; refs]

VERTICAL FILE: "Gardening History -- Toronto"

National Library of Canada. [Exhibition] Cultivating Canadian Gardens: The History of Gardening in Canada. Bibliography. (see also the exhibition website for more details)

Civic Garden Centre. Through the Garden Gate [Official Guide, Annual Garden Tour*]
1998: The Gardens of Hogg's Hollow. p. 4-5, Judy Hernandez, "Hogg's Hollow -- A Little Bit of Yesterday."
1999: The Gardens of Grenadier Pond. p. 4-5, Judy Hernandez, "High Park", and p. 5, "Colborne Lodge".
2000: The Intimate Gardens of Rosedale. p. 3-4, "Rosedale: Canada's first Garden Suburb"
2001: The Gardens of Moore Park and Bennington Heights. p. 3-4, Judy Hernandez, "Moore Park".
2002: The Gardens of Lawrence Park. p. 3-5, "History of Lawrence Park"
2003: The Gardens of Kingsway & Sunnylea. p. 4-5, "The History of The Kingsway and Sunnylea"
* Reference copies of Official Garden Guides available at front desk.

von Baeyer, Edwinna. A Selected Bibliography for Garden History in Canada. Ottawa: Environment Canada, 1987.

WEB RESOURCES

"History of Allan Gardens."

"Toronto Horticultural Society"

"Wychwood Park" [Toronto]