"Flowering Bulbs for Canadian Gardens" print (1962) Size:24x36" and eight other Canadian cities

and eight other Canadian cities during specific moments in their history

print by S

In April of 2012 what began as my attempt to get to know Canada’s architectural heritage turned into a four-year and ten-piece obsessively illustrated series of prints showing my adopted home city of Montreal

by the Civic Transportation Committee (1915)

Were Ontario weeds such a menace in '62 that they required serious prose to explain

"Flowering Bulbs for Canadian Gardens" print (1962) Size:24x36" and eight other Canadian citiesBefore the delightfully salmon coloured 1965 Flowering Bulbs cover happened, this green and brown (and literally progressive) beauty was bearing that standard. My own copy came with a decades old clipping from the Calgary Herald in it about "Planting Hardy Lilies" by Isabelle R. Young, and while I didn't have to do much to turn the cover into this poster, I did bump up the green to dial up the springtime energy. A booklet cover reproduction available