John Davidson (1878-1970) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and graduated from Gordon's College. As botany assistant and later curator of the Botany Museum at the University of Aberdeen from 1893 to 1911 he developed significant skills in plant classification and general biology. In 1911, he was appointed as British Columbia's first Provincial Botanist. Davidson established Canada's first botanical garden at Essondale's Colony Farm. In 1916, the 25,000 plants were transferred to the new Point Grey site of University of British Columbia and the garden continued to develop under his supervision. This file contains some of Davidson's writings and publications as well his original Annual Reports of the Botanical Office of British Columbia.
Inez Nash (née Myntti) was a nurse at Essondale in 1939–1948. This file contains 6 pages of a scrapbook, depicting photographs of Nash and various buildings and locations on Riverview Hospital grounds.
