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News - WAR Flowers
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29 01, 2020

Opening January 31 at Edmonton’s Borealis Gallery, Located in the Alberta Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre

2020-01-29T11:43:33-05:00January 29th, 2020|articles, Press Release|

An Innovative, Multi-Sensorial Exhibition Exploring Human Nature in the Landscape of War through Floriography, Sculpture and Scent. During the First World War (1914-18) Canadian soldier Lieutenant-Colonel George Stephen Cantlie picked flowers from the fields and gardens of war-torn Europe, pressing and drying them within a book. Every day, he sent one flower home, along with a short, affectionate note to one of his children, including his one-year-old baby daughter Celia in Montreal, so that, as she grew up, she would have something to remember him by in the event he didn’t survive that terrible war.

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