List of botanical gardens in Canada
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Alberta

  • Alberta Horticultural Research Center
Route 1
Brooks Alberta

  • Calgary Zoological Gardens

  • Devonian Botanic Garden
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E1
Established 1959

  • Devonian Gardens (Calgary)
    Devonian Gardens (Calgary)
    Devonian Gardens is a large indoor park and botanical garden located in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The park is currently closed for a major $23.5-million renovation and is expected to re-open in Summer 2012....

TD Square, Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

Established 1977

  • Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden
    Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden
    Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden is a garden near Henderson Lake in Lethbridge, Alberta, designed by Dr. Tadashi Kubo of Osaka Prefecture University in Japan. The pavilion, shelter, bridges and gates were built in Japan by artisans who later reassembled them in the garden...

POB 751
Lethbridge Alberta TlJ 3Z6
Established 1967
Japanese Gardens

  • Muttart Conservatory
    Muttart Conservatory
    The Muttart Conservatory is a botanical garden located in the North Saskatchewan river valley, across from downtown Edmonton. The conservatory consists of four glass, pyramid-shaped structures that showcase plants from arid, tropical, and temperate climates, providing a welcome oasis of warmth...

POB 2359 98 Avenue and 96A Street
Edmonton Alberta

  • Olds College Botanic Garden, Olds, Alberta

  • Swimming Point Botanical Garden
Swimming Point Reindeer Corral
Richards Island Alberta
Established 1975
Native Arctic Plants
World's most northern Botanical Garden

British Columbia

  • Bloedel Floral Conservatory
    Bloedel Floral Conservatory
    The Bloedel Floral Conservatory in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a conservatory and aviary located at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park....

    , Vancouver B.C.

  • Butchart Gardens
    Butchart Gardens
    The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive more than a million visitors each year...

POB 4010 Station A
Victoria B.C. V8X 3X4
Established 1904
35 acres (14.2 ha)

  • Crown Forest Industries Arboretum and Museum
Route 1 Ladysmith British Columbia

  • Park and Tilford Gardens
1200 Cotton Road
North Vancouver B.C. V7J Lcl
Established 1969
3 acres (1.2 ha)

  • Queen Elizabeth Park
Bloedel Floral Conservatory
Bloedel Floral Conservatory
The Bloedel Floral Conservatory in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a conservatory and aviary located at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park....

Cambie and ~West 33rd Avenue
Vancouver B.C. V6G lZ5
Established 1939,1969

  • Royal Roads University Botanical Gardens, Victoria B.C.

  • Summerland Research Station
Summerland B.C. VOH LZO
Established 1916
200 taxa

  • UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
    UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
    UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada....

2075 Westbrook Place
Vancouver B.C. V6T lW5
Established 1916
110 acres (44.5 ha)

  • VanDusen Botanical Garden
    VanDusen Botanical Garden
    VanDusen Botanical Garden is situated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Named for local lumberman and philanthropist Whitford Julian VanDusen, it has been a public garden since its opening on August 30, 1975 and is managed by the Vancouver Park Board and run by a large staff of volunteers...

5251 Oak Street
Vancouver B.C.
5000 taxa on 55.5 acres (22.5 ha)

  • Woodland Gardens Arboretum
172nd Street
Surrey British Columbia

Manitoba

  • Assiniboine Park
    Assiniboine Park
    Assiniboine Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established in 1904 and is located north of the Assiniboine Forest. Today, it covers , of these are designed in the English landscape style....

2355 Corydon Avenue
Winnipeg Manitoba R3P OR5
Established 1904
200 taxa on 375 acres (151.8 ha)

  • Manitoba Horticultural Association Arboretum
Canadian Loop Road
Boissevain, Manitoba

  • Morden Research Station
    Morden Research Station
    Morden Research Station is an arboretum in Morden, Manitoba. In 1924 the arboretum was started by W.R. Leslie, adding to the Agriculture Canada Research Station established in 1915. Since then the agriculture station has introduced dozens of new fruit, vegetable, field and ornamental crops...

POB 3001
Morden, Manitoba ROG LJO
Established 1915
3500 taxa 5000 plants
Open May - September

New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

  • The Fredericton Botanic Garden
Located adjacent to Odell Park
Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y2
Open year-round

  • The New Brunswick Botanical Garden
    New Brunswick Botanical Garden
    The New Brunswick Botanical Garden is a provincial park located in suburban Saint-Jacques near Edmundston, New Brunswick. Situated on next to the Madawaska River, it has more than 80,000 plants, making it the largest arboretum east of Montreal. The Botanical Garden opens in early May and is open...

    , Edmundston
Saint-Jacques, NB E7B 1A3
Open every day of the season (May to September)
Official website

  • Kingsbrae Horticultural Garden
St. Andrews
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
St. Andrews is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick.It is sometimes referred to in tourism marketing by its unofficial nickname "St. Andrews-by-the-sea".-Geography:St...

 NB E5B 1Y8

Newfoundland

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden
    Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden
    The Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden is operated by Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on Mount Scio Road in the suburbs of St. John's, and was founded in 1971 under the supervision of Bernard Jackson...

Memorial University
St. John's Newfoundland
AlC 557
Established 1971
Open May 1 - September 30

Nova Scotia

Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia
Bible Hill
Truro Nova Scotia

  • Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens

Ontario

  • Allan Gardens
    Allan Gardens
    Allan Gardens is one of the oldest parks in Toronto, Canada. It has a conservatory , a playground and two fenced off-leash areas for dogs. It is operated by Toronto Parks who also run Centennial Park Conservatory...

19 Horticultural Avenue
Toronto Ontario M5A 2P2
RR# 1 Sebringville Ontario N0K 1X0
2000 species

  • Centennial Botanical Conservatory
    Centennial Conservatory
    The Centennial Conservatory in Thunder Bay, Ontario is located in the city's south end. It was built in 1967 as a Centennial Project to commemorate the Canadian Centennial. The conservatory houses various varieties of tropical plants, flowers, trees and shrubs in its main greenhouse, a cactus...

1600 Dease Street
Thunder Bay Ontario P7C 5H4
Established 1967

  • Centennial Park Conservatory
    Centennial Park Conservatory
    Centennial Park Conservatory is a conservatory in Toronto, Canada. It consists of three greenhouses and of plants including a cactus house, a tropical house and a show house which features seasonal displays. It is located in Centennial Park, in the former City of Etobicoke. This conservatory is...

151 Elmcrest Road
Etobicoke Ontario
Established 1969

  • Dominion Arboretum
    Dominion Arboretum
    The Dominion Arboretum is located at the Central Experimental Farm of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Originally begun in 1889 the Arboretum covers about 26 ha of rolling land between Prince of Wales Drive, Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal. Carleton University is located...

Central Experimental Farm
Central Experimental Farm
The Central Experimental Farm is an agricultural facility, working farm, and research centre of the Research Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. As the name indicates, this farm is centrally located in and completely surrounded by the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...

Ottawa Ontario KIA OC6
Established 1886
2000 taxa
1219 Queen Street East
Sault Saint Marie Ontario
P6A 5M7
Established 1971


Fanshawe College Arboretum
Fanshawe College Arboretum
Fanshawe College Arboretum was started in 1995 when St. Pauls Cathedral was looking for land within London to create a memorial garden of tree plantings in the names of deceased Londoners. They approached Fanshawe College after locating a large expanse of vacant land in the area...

  • London, Ontario
    London, Ontario
    London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...


  • Humber College Arboretum
205 Humber College Blvd.
Rexdale Ontario M9W 5L7
250 taxa on 300 acres (121.4 ha)

  • Lauber Arboretum
    Lauber Arboretum
    Lauber Arboretum is an arboretum located in Kakabeka Falls, Ontario. It has been developed privately by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sitch. The arboretum includes many indigenous species, along with twenty-odd species non-indigenous to the area, which the Sitches have collected on their travels...

RR 1
Kakabeka Falls Ontario
POT 1W0

  • Metro Toronto Parks Commission
    • Edwards Gardens
      Edwards Gardens
      Edwards Gardens is a botanical garden located on the southwest corner of Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue East in Toronto, Ontario. It is also the site of the Toronto Botanical Garden, a private not-for profit organization previously called the Civic Garden Centre.It is a former estate garden...

    • James Gardens
      James Gardens
      James Gardens was purchased by Metro Toronto for $150,000 in 1955. It was the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. James. In 1908 Mr. James purchased the property from his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rumney, as well as the adjoining land from the Home Smith Company...

    • Toronto Islands
      Toronto Islands
      The Toronto Islands are a chain of small islands in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the city centre, and provide shelter for Toronto Harbour...

439 University Avenue
Toronto Ontario

  • Niagara Parks Commission
    Niagara Parks Commission
    The Niagara Parks Commission, or Niagara Parks for short, is an agency of government of Ontario which maintains the Ontario shoreline of the Niagara River.- History :...

POB 15O
Niagara Falls Ontario
Established 1936
3000 acres (1,214.1 ha)

  • Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens
155 Arena St
Oshawa Ontario
Home of the Wally Gilbert Peony Collection

  • Ottawa Valley Native Plant Botanical Garden
Connaught Nursery & Gardens
1671 Micksburg Road
Cobden Ontario K0J 1K0

  • Parkwood, The R.S. McLaughlin Estate National Historic Site and Heritage Garden
270 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa Ontario L1G 4T5
Established 1920's
12 acres (4.9 ha) on Parkwood Estate ground

  • Royal Botanical Gardens
    Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario
    Royal Botanical Gardens is headquartered in Burlington and also include lands in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the major tourist attractions between Niagara Falls and Toronto, as well as a significant local and regional horticultural, education, conservation and scientific resource...

680 Plains Road West
Burlington Ontario L8N 3H8
Established 1930
6500 taxa on 2000 acres (809.4 ha)

  • Sifton Bog
    Sifton bog
    The Sifton Bog is a wetland jointly administered by the city of London, Ontario and the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority. It is located west of Hyde Park Road and south of Oxford Street inside the city limits of London...

Oxford Street West
London Ontario

  • University of Guelph Arboretum
    University of Guelph Arboretum
    The Guelph Arboretum is modeled after the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University which was founded in 1872. The Arnold Arboretum is privately endowed as a department of Harvard just as the Guelph Arboretum is a department of the University of Guelph...

Guelph Ontario NlG 2Wl
Established 1968
330 acres (133.5 ha)

  • University of Toronto
    University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

Erindale College Conservatory
Mississauga Road North
Mississauga Ontario

  • Toronto Zoo
    Toronto Zoo
    The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened August 15, 1974 as the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo and is owned by the City of Toronto; the word "Metropolitan" was dropped from its name when the cities of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto were amalgamated to form the...

POB 280
West Hill Ontario
Established 1973
750 acres (303.5 ha)

  • University of Western Ontario
    University of Western Ontario
    The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...

Sherwood Fox Arboretum
Biology Geology Building
London Ontario
3836 trees and shrubs

  • Vineland Research Station
Vineland Ontario LOR 2EO

Quebec

  • Belle Terre Botanic Garden / Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens
Otter Lake Quebec
cp 242
Mont-Joli Quebec G5H 3Ll

  • Jardin botanique de Montréal
    Jardin botanique de Montréal
    The Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent...

     (Montreal Botanical Gardens)
4101 est Rue Sherbrooke
Montreal Quebec HlX 2B2
20,000 plants on 180 acres (72.8 ha)
Established 1931

  • Jardin Van Den Hende
Faculte d' Agriculture
Université Laval
Université Laval
Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

Ste-Foy Quebec GlK 7P4
2000 species
Established 1978

  • Mont Royal Park
500 acres (202.3 ha)
Established 1872

  • Man and His World
Notre Dame Island
40 acres
Established 1967

  • Morgan Arboretum
Macdonald Campus
Macdonald Campus
The Macdonald Campus of McGill University houses its Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, and the McGill School of Environment.- History :...

 of McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

PO Box 500
Ste Anne de Belleview Quebec H9X 2B2
600 acres (242.8 ha)
Established 1952

Saskatchewan

  • PFRA Tree Nursery
Indian Head Saskatchewan SOG 2KO
200 taxa
Established (Ross Arboretum) 1942

  • University of Saskatchewan Gardens
Saskatoon Saskatchewan

  • Wascana Centre Authority
3475 Albert Street POB 7111
Regina Saskatchewan S4P 357
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