Town of Mount Royal Horticultural Society | Celebrating 100 Years of Garden History

Town of Mount Royal Horticultural Society | Celebrating 100                                    Years of Garden History            

                Town of Mount Royal Horticultural Society                     

                   Celebrates 100 years of Garden History

                                           1923-2023

                Town of Mount Royal Horticultural Society 

                             Annual Flower & Rose Show 

                                           1923 – 2023

                           100th Anniversary Celebration 

                  Town Hall •  90 ave. Roosevelt • H3R 1Z5

The annual Flower & Rose Show of the Horticultural Society remains today one of the main events held annually at Town Hall.

Much acclaimed credit goes to many of its members throughout the years for their implication in the varied public & private gardens throughout the City.

The Horticultural Society is better known for their implication in the creation of the Rose Garden in Connaught Park between 1957-1958 with the City Council, donating over 2000 rose bushes for its creation.

The rose garden today known as ‘Pierre Elliot Trudeau Rose Garden’ – named after Pierre Elliott Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada and ‘Member of Parliament for Town of Mount Royal’ (1965-1984).   

Ernest B. Jubien a Town Councillor, was a leading member for over 39 years during the period when the Rose Garden was designed.

The Society holds annual conferences featuring various local Speakers and has retained the annual seasonal events, the Perennial Exchange in the Spring, the Flower &  Rose Show in the Summer, Garden Tours and their annual Holiday Floral  Arrangement seminar.

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La Société de Horticulture à Ville Mont Royal fête cette année cent années de pouvoir ;  1923-2023.

La Société Horticulture fête à chaque année, l’événement reconnue ‘l’Exposition des Fleurs’, à l’Hôtel de Ville. 

La grand contribution des ces membres pendant les années, démontre un grand pouvoir dans l’aménagement des jardins public et privé autour la ville.

La Société est mieux connue pour leur implication dans la création du Jardin des Roses à Parc Connaught en collaboration avec le conseil municipal 1957-58, l’ouvrage élaboré avec un don de 2000 arbustes des roses planter.  Le Jardin aujourd’hui est nomme d’après ‘ Pierre Elliott  

Trudeau’, Première Ministre du Canada et ‘Député de Ville Mont Royal’ (1965-198 )

Ernest B. Jubien, Conseiller municipale, membre de la Société pour 39 années pendant la création du Jardin.  La

Société ce réunion avec des conférenciers locaux et fait promouvoir horticulture à les événements saisonnière;l’échange  des vivaces au printemps, l’Exposition des Fleurs à l’Hôtel de Ville et des démonstrations des arrangements floraux saisonnière pendant les fêtes.

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Town of Mount Royal most recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2012.  The city renowned for its unique urban development project was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008.

This remarkable urban renewal project paved the way for innovation in Urban Planning in the early 20th Century.

The ‘Mount Royal Tunnel’ built by Canadian Northern Railway, is the third longest in Canada connecting Central Station, Montreal and passes under Mount Royal Mountain in the center of the Island.  It was an elaborate piece of work of the electrified railway tunnel, the work began in 1911 and terminated in 1918.

Dominion Square, Place du Canada Park in the centre of is located on top of the ‘Mount Royal Tunnel’, which connects downtown Montreal to the ‘Town of Mount Royal’.

An initiative of the Canadian Northern Railway, the plan was to build a model city at the foot of Mount Royal, linking the town to downtown Montreal, Central-Station via an underground rail-tunnel through Mount Royal mountain.

The rail company purchased 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) of farmland, which has been magically transformed into the Garden City as we know today of Town of Mount Royal – ‘Ville Mont-Royal’.

Landscape architect Frederick Gage Todd (1876-1948) was hired to draw up the plans.  

The Town was officially incorporated in 1912, and the first passenger train arriving through the tunnel in 1918. 

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At the turn of the Century, the ‘Garden City Movement’, set to revolutionize the industrialised era, with a new concept of ‘Urban planning’, connecting the various villages with green-belts and promoting ‘public gardens’ and ‘green spaces’ in the ‘planning process’, citing examples of the cities of Europe as inspiration.  Thus, the Garden City Movement was born.

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The annual Flower & Rose Show of the Horticultural Society remains today one of the main events held annually at Town Hall.

Much acclaimed credit goes to many of its members throughout the years.

Many thanks to all !

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