The Civic Museum’s annual Founder’s Day lecture will be held April 30 at 7:30pm.
Peter Kelly, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph will be presenting a discussion on his latest book, The Last Stand: A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment. Admission to the lecture is $5 per person at the door.
An ancient forest of white cedar trees with individual trees as old as 1,000 years clings to the cliff faces of the Niagara Escarpment in Southern Ontario. Local author, photographer and ecologist Kelly spent 18 years studying that ancient forest. He will take the audience for a journey onto those sheer vertical cliffs so that they can experience the unusual forest up close. He will also explain how the forest came to be and the importance of cedar to the First Nations’ peoples and the first Europeans who lived and settled in eastern Canada. Copies of his book (co-authored with Doug Larson); will be available for sale following the talk.
The annual Founder’s Day Lecture is held to commemorate the founding of Guelph by John Galt and others in April 1827.
Guelph Civic Museum is located at 6 Dublin St. S. Museum hours: daily 1 to 5 pm. Contact Guelph Museums at 836-1221 or guelph.ca/museum for more information.
