HIST 324 - Gardens and Gardeners in Canada: A History

This course explores historical relationships amongst gardens, plants, and peoples in Canada from the 16th-century to the present. Approaches include the material, cultural, social, and political histories of gardens and their gardeners across time and geographical space. Course goals include demonstrating an emerging awareness of periodization in Canadian garden history, developing an understanding of garden history as a field of knowledge, and identifying some of the various sources of garden history and their usefulness. Assigned work may include discussion of primary and secondary sources, research and/or reflective essays or projects, individual and/or group work, and experiential learning through actual gardening whenever possible.