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Some Facts About Canada's Oldest Continuously Operating University Botanical Garden
Important Dates
1916 UBC Botanical Garden founded by John Davidson
1968 Garden established at present site
1976 UBC Friends of the Garden program initiated
1985 Garden becomes a department of the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
2002 Renamed to UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
Quick Facts
Area Approximately 44 hectares (110 acres)
Main Gardens Alpine, Asian, Native, Food, Physic, Winter and Nitobe Memorial Garden (Japanese garden)
Facilities Botanical and Nitobe gardens, nursery, greenhouses, research plots (Totem Field), research laboratories
Collections Over 8000 different plants in roughly 12 000 living accessions
Latitude 49° 15' 29" N
Longitude 123° 14' 58" W
Elevation 104.42m (342.6 feet)