Sunday, June 15, 2025
Forty years ago, I had the pleasure of spending two summers with Ross working on a botanical survey of Walpole Island First Nation. Ross was an excellent botanist, with a specialty in orchids, and I’ll never forget his whoop of glee, hunckered down in a prairie, on his discovery of an orchid new to Canada - - Spiranthes ovalis. Ross was a joy to spend time with; an engaging conversationalist, with a great sense of humour, and a trove of amusing stories. I will never forget the laughs we had together. He was a wonderful, elegant man.
