Agnes Dunbar Mooodie Fitzgibbon was a daughter of Susanna Moodie and resided in Lambton Mills, on Dundas Street, in the 1860s. At this time she illustrated her book “Canadian Wildflowers,” for which her aunt Catharine Parr Traill, wrote the text.

All of her specimens were from the Baby Point and Humber Valley area adjacent to her home; many of these flowers still survive in the Magwood Sanctuary on the north side of Baby Point.

Published in 1867, the book may be seen in the Baldwin Room of the Toronto Reference Library.

The Humber Heritage Committee is giving its annual Spring Wildflower Walk through Agnes' world of 1865 on Sunday, MAY 8th, 2011, led my Madeleine McDowell.