Photo #57490
Last Name: Craig
First Name: John
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Subject's State: Ottawa
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Subject's Country: Canada
Date: 1851-1900
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Comments: John Craig (Nee: ) | Ottawa Canada | 1851-1900 | Comments: This portrait of John Craig appears on the illustration page facing page 200 in The Canadian Horticulturist, vol.XVI, no.6, 1893. There is a biographical sketch of him on pages 2000-201 of that volume. John was born in 1864 at Lakefield, Argenteuil County in the province of Quebec, Canada. When he was eight years old his family moved to Abbotsford. He became very involved in horticulture and fruit growing. For a period he worked for the Iowa Experiment Station in the USA and travelled throughout the Dakotas, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Utah and Colorado in search of botanical specimens. In 1890 he was appointed to a position at the Central Experimental Farm for the Dominion of Canada.
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