Notable Horticulturalists
K.M. Broman
Knut Mattias Broman was educated in Sweden and Britain. In 1927, he was in Toronto, Ontario working as a landscape artist for an engineering firm. T.B. McQuesten approached Broman in 1935 and presented his idea for a horticultural school. Broman was eager to plan and develop the school grounds. He also worked with McQuesten to develop the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton. He was the first Superintendent of the Niagara Parks Commission School of Gardening and his plan for the grounds was, and still is, invaluable.
Charles H. 'Bert' Henning
Mr. Henning was born in 1916 in Basingstoke, England. He studied Botany at the University College of the South West and then studied at the Somerset Farm Institute and the Hartford Institute of Agricuture. In 1948, Mr. Henning became an instructor at the School of Gardening as it was then known and six years later he became the School Superintendent.
George Dalby
George Dalby was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He graduated from the School of Horticulture. He began his career in horticulture with Toronto General Burial Grounds at the Mount Pleasant and North York Cemeteries. He joined the Niagara Parks Commission in 1953 as the Superintendent of Horticulture. In 1961, he became the Superintendent of Parks and he remained in this position until his retirement in 1985. He won numerous awards and was very popular as a horticultural columnist for the Niagara Falls Review and the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. He also hosted a radio show about gardening on CKTB.
William Snowden
William Snowdon was from Peterborough, Ontario. He graduated from the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture in 1958 and became a teacher, and subsequently a senior instructor at the school. He left to take over the job as Horticultural Coordinator at Queen Victoria Park, but he returned to the School of Horticulture in 1987 as the Superintendent.
