Royal Botanical Gardens

I can't remember if I've done a episode on cinnamon or not, but the spice comes from the inner bark of trees in the cinnamon family.

The Royal Botanical Gardens describes true cinnamon and other species that supply similar cinnamon spices.

So that wonderful smell in your kitchen begins with a tree.

I think that is the coolest thing.

We know Hamilton's facing a lot of challenges, but there's a lot of great things to Hamilton as well, and we can't forget that.

You know, talk about the natural assets just here in Dundas with the Niagara Escarpment, Cootes Paradise, Royal Botanical Gardens, conservation areas.

We have amazing post-secondary institutions, hospitals, a thriving athletic community, two new sports teams, uh, s- professional sports teams joining our community, agricultural lands, farmers, locally owned business.

I mean, we are seeing large-scale investment like TD Coliseum and people investing their life savings into running small businesses across the city.

But the Rainbow would be the first for, uh, cars and people.

And we also had the Royal Botanical Gardens, which he wrote up the original plans for.

And in later on in his life, uh, he also oversaw the rebuilding of Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

If you don't know that, the, the Fort George that yous visited, other than the powder magazine, which is the stone building in the back by the tunnel, other than that, that's original, but everything else was destroyed during the War of 1812.

We have studies that show an increase in local wildflower health and lifespan after wild bees begin nesting in the area.

Scientists from the Royal Botanical Gardens find that bees activate medicinal compounds in linden and strawberry trees, which actually make them more resistant to parasites.

Interesting.

Yeah.

This is the Gen Podcast.

Today, Ward 13, Dundas, Greensville, Freelton, Rockton, Kirkwall, Westover, Beverley, a ward that runs from the Valley Town toward Cambridge, with Cootes Paradise, the Dundas Valley, Westfield, and a large piece of the Royal Botanical Gardens inside it.

About 35,000 people, three communities that do not always want the same thing.

There is no incumbent.

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So some viewers out there, you probably know the African lion safari, uh, Westfield heritage village and a large portion of the Royal botanical gardens.

Is that in your ward as well?

And amazingly, that specimen still exists today.

Um, it was in a Scottish castle for 150 years, but it was recovered in the 1980s and repatriated, you could say, to Canada, and it's now at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.

Oh.

And so this, I think of it as a witness, a, a surviving witness of the founding of Bytown because, um, this, this sprig still exists.