Collecting with “botanical friends”: Four Women in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland

• Published in: Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Main Authors: Shteir, Ann, Cayouette, Jacques
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: CSTHA/AHSTC 2019
• Subjects: Botany; women; correspondence; networks; British North America; William Jackson Hooker; Lady Dalhousie; Anne Mary Perceval; Harriet Sheppard; Mary Brenton; Quebec; Newfoundland; Canada; Découverte; Hooker; Ramsay; Sheppard; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1056314ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1056314ar

Four women from the British colonial elite in Quebec and Newfoundland were among the more than 120 contributors to William Jackson Hooker’s Flora Boreali-Americana (1829-40), an imperial project to assemble information about plants from across British North America. Letters that Christian Ramsay (La...