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Miss Helen Mackenzie, Government House 1927 Mayor's Grove was established during a 1927 convention of western mayors in Victoria. Led by Miss Helen MacKenzie of Government House, who planted a Douglas fir that now towers over thirty some trees of diverse shapes and sizes including oak, maple, beech, copper beech, ash, linden and a historic hawthorne. Helen MacKenzie was the daughter of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a former prime minister of Canada. She lived at Government House from 1919 to 1930 as the hostess of her brother-in-law, Lieutenant Governor Edward Gawler Prior. Nine mayors planted trees in 1927 to begin the grove (see map items 2-10).
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1927 | Douglas fir |
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Mayor L.D. Tayler, Vancouver, 1927 Tayler was the mayor of Vancouver from 1925 to 1928 and from 1931 to 1934.
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1927 | Maple |
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Hon. Randolph Bruce, Lieut. Gov of BC, 1927
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1927 | Oak |
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Mayor J.A. Gregory,
North Battleford, 1927
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1927 | Beech |