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Hi, my name is Anna Soper! I've created this project to capture current observations of species collected by Catharine McGill (Kate) Crooks in 1859-1865. Crooks was a member of the Botanical Society of Canada, and, with her brother-in-law, published a list of roughly 500 plants in southwestern Ontario! Her specimen collection was displayed in the Canadian pavilion at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, England. Curiously, these specimens do not appear to have survived the many years since her premature death, in 1871. Today, there is one known specimen attributed to Kate Crooks; a single cutting of Sabatia angularis, held at McGill University Herbarium.
You can read more about Crooks' life and work in my story for Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/botanist-ontario-kate-crooks. And check out my website, www.annasoper.ca.
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