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Frederick Todd, Canada’s first professional landscape architect

Bowring Park in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, at sunset in 2011.
Bowring Park in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, at sunset in 2011. Bowring Park · Sivaprasad.ucc · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Frederick Gage Todd (1876–1948), Canada’s first professional landscape architect, trained with the Olmsted firm and designed beloved parks including Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Bowring Park in St. John’s and the Plains of Abraham battlefields park in Québec City. His 1903 plan for Ottawa influenced every later plan for the capital.

Scope & context

His landscape and planning work, not a full list of commissions.

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