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Under the expert eye of the instructor Les Keynnersley (left), third-year senior students get practical training in seed planting. In addition to working in schools extensive floral and ornamental gardens, apprentices occassionally get an opportunity to put in a few hours in greenhouses and formal gardens of the Niagara Parks Commission system. Winter months are occupied with lecture sessions on botany, soil chemistry and plant diseases.
Date
June 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB70326 [S3]
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
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Corsages for their dance dates are no problem to students Keith Robinson and Russell Nutley (right), who expertly make up their own. School has well-rounded sports and social program, supplies each student with free membership to Y.M.C.A. for swimming and gym classes.
Date
June 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB70331 [S3]
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Cauliflower is covered to protect it from burning in sun and to encourage curd to bleach. School produces most of its fresh vegetables in kitchen garden tended by first year students. Enrollment is limited to Canadians, with eight new students being accepted annually.
Date
June 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB70347
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175962
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #003: Niagara Gardening School
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board Photos by Chris Lund
Release Date
June 1, 1955
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archive
Main Text
In the only school of its kind in North America, the Niagara Parks Commission School of Gardening, twenty-four apprentices are learning the "Art, Trade or Mystery" of planting, soil culture and landscaping. With the greenery of Niagara Falls' parks as their outdoor classrooms, these hand-picked students receive three years of theoretical training in floriculture, horticulture and allied sciences. Apprentices receive room, board and tuition free, and are paid a subsistence allowance varying with their seniority as students. Basic purpose of the 100-acre school, which was opened in 1936, was to turn out qualified gardeners to work for the Parks Commission. Since then, school policy has broadened, and while some graduates now accept positions in Niagara Falls, the majority work elsewhere. So great is the demand for skilled gardeners, that grads are snapped up eagerly by landscape-minded industries, universities and civic corporations.
