Davidsonia

Adolph, V. 2004. Provincial Treasures - John Davidson and the Riveriew Lands: A Century of Growth in Jeopardy. Davidsonia. 15(1):4-8

John Davidson, British Columbia’s first Provincial Botanist and founder of the UBC Botanical Garden, is a seminal figure in the field of botany and natural history in this area. One of his first tasks at UBC was to create a botanical garden to accommodate plants from his botanical explorations of various regions of British Columbia - coastal marshes, Okanagan desert, Rocky Mountain alpine meadows and everything in between. That garden was part of the complex then called “Essondale”; the “mental” hospital, experimental farm and botanical garden named after Henry Esson Young. Today what's left of it is called Riverview.