William Mundie, landscape gardner

• Autores: David Bain
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 5, Nº 3, 1985, págs. 298-308
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • The acceptance of landscape gardening as a legitimate vocation in Canada West was one small consequence of a process that saw the province begin to emerge from a backwoods subsistence economy to a more urban, settled and prosperous way of life. In the 1840s and 1850s, advances in transportation, improving technology and new markets created a stable environment for growth. For the first time, large numbers were settling or relocating in cities and towns and there was a merchant and professional class with both the money and the leisure time to redesign the landscape to their pleasure. Along with this steady demand for personal landscapes came a more pressing need for shaping the public landscape. Government buildings, schools and public gardens all required the development of large pieces of land in the most rapid, efficient and attractive manner possible. This was an area in which the surveyors, architects and engineers of Canada were largely uneducated and it became necessary or, at least, possible for a small group of landscape gardeners trained in Europe or the settled parts of America to establish practices. One of the first and likely the most important of these men was William Mundie (c. 1811-1858) who, in the few years he lived in the province, was involved with a number of major, early landscape designs.