Date: 02/02/1999

Number: 1

OFFICIAL OPENING OF URQUHART BUTTERFLY GARDEN

The Urquhart Butterfly Garden in Centennial Park, Dundas, Ontario will officially open on Saturday July 26th, at 3:00 pm. After over 5 years of fundraising and construction, this glorious haven for butterflies is ready to spread its wings.

The garden provides not only the flowering nectar plants for the adult butterflies, but also the green leafy food plants required by their offspring, the caterpillars.

The Urquhart Butterfly Garden is named in honour of the work and dedication of Professor F. A. urquhart and his wife Norah. This remarkable team spent their lives in the scientific research of the Monarch Butterfly. The wintering sites in far-off Mexico were finally discovered in 1975.

The project consists of 6 huge raised planting beds, surrounded with a maze of walkways. There ae also 3 natural areas. The garden is situated at the east of Centennial Park at the end of the Desjardins Canal, and is completely

Dundas, ON

Latitude: 43.3 Longitude: -80

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