Museum of Health Care at Kingston
32 George Street
Kingston, ON K7L 2V7
613-548-2419
http://medicine.istorm.ca/index.html
The Museum of Health Care at Kingston has various research papers and exhibits relating to herbal medicine, including the Parke-Davis collection of turn-of-20th century medicinal plant materials and a collection of antique patent medicines, some of which are plant-based.
Niagara Apothecary
5 Queen Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON LOS 1J0
905-468-3845
http://www.niagaraapothecary.ca/
The Niagara Apothecary has a vast assortment of herbal medications, drawers of century-old dried specimens (some in manufacturer's boxes), and native medicines. The apothecary also has a modest collection of reference books.
Royal Botanical Gardens
680 Plains Road West
Hamilton/Burlington, ON L7T 4H4
905-527-1158
http://www.rbg.ca/index.html
Royal Botanical Gardens displays a large collection of medicinal plants, grouped in beds focusing on particular body systems or ailments. Interpretive signage provides an overview of the plants in each bed, corresponding to plant labels, and during the summer months an interpreter is stationed in the garden on a regular basis. The RBG consists of 1100 hectares (2700 acres) of gardens, forest, wetlands, and Niagara Escarpment cliff located between the cities of Hamilton and Burlington.
Other Places To Go
Black Creek Pioneer Village
1000 Murray Ross Parkway
Toronto, ON M3J 2P3
416-736-1733
http://www.trca.on.ca/parks_and_culture/places_to_visit/black_creek/
Black Creek Pioneer Village has a 19th-century Doctor's House and associated gardens where various heritage medicinal plants are grown. The gift shop also sells a small booklet, Nature's Pharmacy, which describes a number of medicinal plants. The Village is a collection of houses and buildings typical of 19th-century Ontario.
London Museum of Archaeology
1600 Attawandaron Road
London, ON N6G 3M6
519-473-1360
http://www.uwo.ca/museum
The London Museum of Archaeology offers tours of its outdoor medicinal gardens, a permanent exhibit on medicinal plants used by the region’s historic Attawandaron/Neutral Nation, and an “edu-kit” for rent to teachers and groups.
Joseph Schneider Haus
466 Queen Street South
Kitchener, ON N2G 1W7
519-742-7752
http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/0/
39880F1E8B00427885256B1200575703?OpenDocument
Joseph Schneider Haus, the restored home of Joseph Schneider, an early Mennonite settler of Kitchener, contains a garden including medicinal plants used by Mennonites of the 1850s.
Hutchison House Museum
270 Brock Street
Peterborough, ON K9H 2P9
705-743-9710
http://www.nexicom.net/~history/MUSsite.htm
The Hutchison House Museum has an herb garden with some medicinal plants. It also offers a school educational program about herbal folk remedies. Peterborough residents built the house in 1836 for Dr. John Hutchison and his family.
Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island
Mailing address:
Box 278
M’Chigeeng, ON P0P 1G0
Street address:
15 Highway 551, M’Chigeeng ON
705-377-4902
http://www.theocf.ca/
The Ojibwe Cultural Foundation has no exhibits on medicinal plants, but its centre’s hosts offer visitors general information about how plants native to Manitoulin Island were used by the island’s Ojibwe inhabitants for medicinal purposes.
Oshawa Community Museum and Archives
1450 Simcoe Street South (Lakeview Park)
Oshawa, ON L1H 8S8
905- 436-7624
http://www.oshawamuseum.org
The Oshawa Community Museum and Archives has a Heritage Garden where a variety of different herbs typical of the pioneer and Victorian periods are grown. One of the houses that comprises the museum is the former home of Lurenda Henry, an early Oshawa pioneer who was also a traveling herbalist.
Scugog Shores Historical Museum
16210 Island Road
Port Perry, ON L9L 1B4
905-985-3589
http://www.scugogshoresmuseum.com
The Scugog Shores Historical Museum includes the Ojibway Heritage Interpretive Lands, a permanent exhibit that interprets the natural and cultural history of the Scugog watershed prior to European settlement. The exhibit includes a collection of trees and plants – including some used for medicinal purposes – that represent some of the species that flourished throughout the area prior to the construction (in 1834) of the Lindsay dam on the Scugog River.
Richters Herb Specialists
357 Highway 47
Goodwood, ON L0C 1A0
905-640-6677
http://www.richters.com
Richters is a commercial herb-growing company that has an outdoor display garden including some 200 medicinal plants. Richters also hosts occasional seminars on how to grow and use medicinal plants, and the company’s website has a section where visitors can send their questions to medicinal plant experts.
Montréal Botanical Garden/Jardin botanique de Montréal
4101 Sherbrooke East
Montréal, QC H1X 2B2
514-872-1400
http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/menu.htm
The First Nations Garden at the Montréal Botanical Garden highlights the knowledge, cultivation and use of plant species by the eleven First Nations of Québec. These themes are presented in different parts of the Garden according to the types of forests in which the First Nations are based: the softwood forest, the hardwood forest, and the Nordic zone. In summer, native interpreters lead visitors through the garden.
Other Places To Go
Herboristerie la Clef des Champs
990 Route 117
Val-David, QC J0T 2N0
819-322-1561
http://www.clefdeschamps.net/
Clef des Champs grows medicinal herbs in its organic gardens and transforms them into tinctures, glycerites, oils, and salves. An importer of organic teas (black and green tea) and culinary herbs and spices, over the years Clef has developed a unique expertise in the growing and transformation of medicinal herbs.
L’Armoire aux Herbes
375 rang des Chutes
Ham-Nord, QC G0P 1A0
819-344-2080
http://www.herbotheque.com/
Located in the Appalachian hills of Quebec, L’Armoire aux Herbes has been growing herbs and blooms and selling herbal remedies and flower essences for more than 20 years. The farm practices traditional herbalism; everything there is done by hand. Its two hectares (five acres) of gardens are opened for guided visits in July and August. Many workshops are offered throughout the growing season on various aspects of traditional herbalism. Books and documents (in French) on humanity’s relationship with healing plants are also offered.
James J. O’Mara Pharmacy Museum
488 Water Street
St. John’s, NF A1E 1B3
709-753-5877
http://www.manl.nf.ca/jjomara.htm
The James J. O’Mara Pharmacy Museum is a replica of a typical working Apothecary circa 1895, complete with oak fixtures (1879), and an extensive collection of show globes, shop bottles, pill makers, compounding and dispensing equipment, and supplies. Many of the shop, stock, and patent medicine bottles contain plant-based ingredients.
Kingsbrae Garden
220 King Street
St. Andrews, NB E5B 1Y8
506-529-3335 Toll Free: 1-866-566-TOUR (8687)
http://www.kingsbraegarden.com
Medicinal herbs are grown throughout the different themed gardens that make up Kingsbrae Garden, and a medicinal herbal scavenger hunt is offered to all who care to participate. Kingsbrae is an award-winning 10.9-hectare (27-acre) public garden in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Other Places To Go
Colony of Avalon
P.O. Box 119
Ferryland, NF A0A 2H0
709-432-3200 877-326-5669
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon
Staff both in the Colony of Avalon garden and in the site’s replica 17th-century kitchen interpret the traditional uses of medicinal plants grown at one of three Heritage Gardens. The Colony of Avalon was one of North America’s earliest European settlements, and archaeologists are now excavating and interpreting the site.
The Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden
306 Mt. Scio Road
St. John's, NF A1C 5S7
709-737-8590
http://www.mun.ca/botgarden/index.php
The Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden is located near a Field Centre and includes a variety of different types of gardens – from a rock garden to a Newfoundland heritage garden. Among these is a section of medicinal plants. There are five nature trails that meander through a 110-acre managed nature reserve.
Ross Drugs
402 Queen Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1B6
506-458-9951
Ross Drugs, a commercial pharmacy, has a display of medicines & pharmacy instruments from the 1800s (bottles, weight scales, etc.) and a catalogued 3,000-item collection of items that is not on public display. It also has an 1856 volume describing many plant-based home remedies.
The Museum at Campbell River
Mailing address:
Box 70, Stn. A
Campbell River, BC V9W 4Z9
Street address:
470 Island Highway (reached via 5th Avenue)
Campbell River, BC
250-287-3103
http://www.crmuseum.ca/
Over 140 plant species were recognized and named by First Nations groups in the Campbell River area; these were harvested and used as food, medicine, or employed in traditional technology. At the West Coast Garden at the Museum at Campbell River, illustrated signage identifies the wild plants in three different aboriginal languages (as well as in English and Latin) and provides information about their harvesting, preparation, and use.
Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park
#311–355 Yellowhead Highway (on the Kamloops Reserve)
Kamloops, BC V2H 1H1
250-828-9801
http://www.secwepemc.org/SECethnogardens2/index.htm
The Secwepemc Ethnobotanical Gardens, part of the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park, are divided into five zones, each representing a different ecosystem found within the Secwepemc Territory. Interpretive signs located in each garden describe the ecosystem in which the plants grow naturally. The Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park portrays the cultural history of the Shuswap people.
Other Places To Go
U’mista Cultural Centre
Mailing Address:
PO Box 253
Alert Bay, BC V0N 1A0
Street address:
#1 Front Street
Alert Bay, BC
250-974-5403 800-690-8222
http://www.umista.org
The U’mista Cultural Centre has a small garden and exhibit of native plants and some ethnobotanical information about their traditional medicinal uses. The Centre has also compiled and published a school manual of most-used plants and animals of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation.
VanDusen Botanical Garden
5251 Oak Street (37th & Oak)
Vancouver, BC V6M 4H1
604-878-9274
http://www.vandusengarden.org
The 22-hectare (55-acre) VanDusen Botanical Garden, located in the heart of Vancouver, has a small collection of medicinal plants on the western side of its Canadian Heritage Garden. These are indigenous species used by the First Nations people of Canada for treating various ailments. Most of the plants in this collection are native to British Columbia. VanDusen also has a collection of Asian medicinal plants in its Sino-Himalyan garden. All plants are labelled with their Latin/common and cultural names, along with a brief description of how they are or were used.
University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden
Mailing address:
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1
Location:
Hwy 60, 5 km north of Devon, AB
780-987-3054
http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/
University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden has a .75-acre herb garden featuring large island beds surrounded by Pygmy caragana shrubs to protect the more delicate herbs, many of which are medicinal. Various new gardens, including a Chinese herb garden with some hardy medicinal species, are being further developed.
Other Places To Go
Luxton Museum of the Plains Indian
One Birch Avenue
Banff, AB T0L 0C0
403-762-2388
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/luxton
The Luxton Museum of the Plains Indian celebrates the history and culture of the bands of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Peigan and Blood), the Cree, the Sioux (Stoney and Assiniboin) and the Tsuu T'ina, who are collectively known as the Plains Indians. The Museum includes a Medicine Wheel Garden containing cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and tobacco.
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
Mailing address:
8820 – 112 Street
Edmonton, AB T6G 2P8
Location:
Highway 16, 3 km east of Elk Island National Park entrance
(25 minutes east of Edmonton)
780-662-3640
http://www.cd.gov.ab.ca/enjoying_alberta/museums_historic_sites/
site_listings/ukrainian_heritage_village/index.asp
The Village has several gardens in which medicinal plants are grown. Some plants are dried, displayed, and interpreted in the Village homes; some medicinal plant description and interpretation also takes places during the tours of the gardens.
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