Plaque will honour early Canadian botanist John Macoun

A new plaque at the Canadian Museum of Nature will honour John Macoun, an irascible and self-promoting Irishman who travelled across Canada collecting and studying our plants in our early years as a nation.
A field naturalist and scientist, John Macoun (1831-1920) was the first to survey, document, and categorize Canadian flora in a systematic manner. He devoted his life to collecting botanical specimens that later formed the core of Canada’s national collection, which is now at the museum