Catharine McGill Crooks | |
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Born | February 13, 1833 |
Died | March 23, 1871 |
Occupation | Botanist |
Catharine (Kate) McGill Crooks Smart or Kate Crooks (February 13, 1833 – March 23, 1871) was a botanist and member of the Botanical Society of Canada. Her pressed botanical specimens were displayed in London, England at the International Exhibition of 1862,[1] and her botanical records were cited in the Catalogue of Canadian Plants; published as part of the Geological Survey of Canada.[2] She was a member of the Crooks family, a prominent family of merchants, industrialists, civil servants, politicians, and landowners in the nineteenth-century British colony of Upper Canada.[3]
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