History of the PHS
For the Love of Flowers: The History of the Peterborough Horticultural Society 1861 – 1996
Author: Suzanne Bailey
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Published by the Peterborough Horticultural Society, P.O. Box 1372, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7H6 ISBN: 0-9680920-0-4
Printed by Centennial Printers, 1996. First printing. Cover: Victoria Park, designed and maintained from 1885 by the Peterborough Horticultural Society (Lyon and Roy Archives) Cited in Carol Martin, A History of Canadian Gardening. (Toronto: McArthur and Company, 2000): 99. ISBN: 9781552781678 |
Presidents of the Peterborough Horticultural Society*
| Vincent Clementi (1861-62, 1873-74) Sheriff James Hall (1863-68, 1870) A. Kempt (1869) D.w. Dumble (1871-72, 1903-07) George Barker (1875-77) J.H. Roper (1878-92) Dr. George Burnham (1893-1900) Adam Hall (1901-02) Col. H.C. Rogers (1908) Peter Campbell (1909-12) Harry L. Beal (1913-14) Walter Stocker (1915-18, 1928) Alex Weddell (1919-20) Dr. J.E. Middleton (1921-22) T.E. Bradburn (1923-24) R.W. Cormack (1925) C.S. Thompson (1926-27) W.H. Young (1929-30) Dr. A.J. Madill (1931-33) S.T. Harris (1935) John A. Smith (1937-1939) Rev. V.E.R. Zufelt (1940) E.W. Watson (1941) Mrs. G.K. Fraser (1944-1958) |
Don Emery (1959-60) Kenneth Long (1961) Kenneth Johnston (1961-62) Rev. J. Duncan (1963-65) Travis Mersereau (1966, 1970-76) Robert Prior (1967-69) Mrs. B.K. Brown (1977-79) Flora Weatherup (1980-82) Zoltan Bank (1983) Lil Edgerton (1984-85) Phyllis Lake (1986-87) Gillian McCleary (1988-89) Ann Greer-Wootten (1991-92) Inge Buchardt (1993-95) Cathy Underhill (1996-97) Lynne Cooper (1998-99) Robert H. Beckett (2000-01) Ann Greer-Wooten (2002-06) Gary Westlake (2007-08) Anne Milne (2009-10) Pat de Villiers (2011-14) Mary-Jane Pilgrim (2015-) |
Secretaries of the Peterborough Horticultural Society*
| G.H.Hughes (1861) V .M. Clementi (1862-63) Richard White (1864-68) Stephen Balmer ( 1869) George Barker ( 1873-74) Robert Brown (1875-78) W.H. Pendry (1879) W.J. Nesbitt (1880) Jas. Saulter (1881) J. Irvine Davidson (1882-84) J.D. Collins (1885-87) Peter Henry (1888-94) A.H. Cobb (1895-96) Felix Brownscombe ( 1897-1900) Harry L. Beal (1901-10) Frank Wise (1911) C.H. Williamson (1912-18) E.E. Brumwell (1919) J.H. Callander (1920) Leon Frazer (1921-25) Frank G. Stinson (1926-27) S.T. Harris (1928, 1932) |
John Edgar (1930) W.G.P. Benton (1935) W.C. Wilks (1933, 1936-63) M.B. Duffield (1963-66) Lily Taylor (1967) Loretta Meagher ( 1968) Hilda Whiteman ( 1969-86) Kathy Pimmett (1987-90) Lynne Cooper ( 1991-92) Regina Prokopcyzuk ( 1993) Suzanne Bailey (1994-95) Judith Pach (1996-97) Anne Heffernan (1998-99) Claire Sullivan (2000-01) Deb Bottomley (2002-05) Dawna Rhodenhizer (2006-10) Cathy Fraser (2011-13) Pat Freistatter (2014) Carol Bulmer (2015) Jen Bird (2016-2020) Donna-Marie Fennell (2020-2022) Maura Holek (2022 – ) |
Treasurers of the Peterborough Horticultural Society*
| Pauline Duffett (1996-99) Helen Thompson (2000-01) Niki Dufresne (2002-06) Marie Doyle (2007-10) Claire Sullivan (2011-2020) Mary-Rose Daigle (2020 – ) |
*Compiled from available records. No Society records exist from 1916-59.
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