Scholarships and Grants

One of the Garden Club of Toronto’s most important aims is to promote a love for the environment with emphasis on horticultural and gardening education.

Our scholarship program focuses on post-secondary institutions except for the Teaching Garden scholarships. In the granting of the scholarships the criteria has been set by the Garden Club of Toronto, but it is the specific institution that selects the award recipient.

University of Guelph

$1,000

 

Awarded to a student entering the fourth year of study for being an outstanding student in the school year who has an interest in environmental horticulture or ornamental crop production. This scholarship has been awarded annually since 1952.

Contact information:  www.oac.uoguelph.ca

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University of Toronto

$1,000

Awarded for academic merit in the second year of the three-year course.

This scholarship has been awarded annually since 1966.

Current Winner		2009	Alessandro Colaveccho
Previous Winners		2008	Courtney Likins
		2007	Kerrie Leigh Harvey
		2006	Eileen Sheila Finn
		2005	Moira Wilson
		2004	Shannon Lee

Contact information:  www.ald.utoronto.ca 

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Humber College

$500

Awarded for a continuing student in the Landscape Technician Program who, in the judgment of the faculty, demonstrates a strong interest in landscape design and ornamental cultures in the school year. This scholarship has been awarded annually since 1999.

Current Winner	2009	Candice Welch
Previous Winners	2008	Lara Figueiredo
	2007	Paul Leonard Brick & Rosalinda Furlan
	2006	Natasha Egorenkova
	2005	Nancy Collins & Angela Murphy
	2004	Louann Bryan

Contact information:  www.humber.ca 

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Fanshaw College

$500x 2

Awarded to two students who have excelled in the first year of the Horticultural program. This scholarship commensed in 2006.

Current Winner	2009	Patricia Stark & Ryan Arthur
Previous Winners	2008	Casey Anderson & Julie Vonk
	2007	Tricia Johns & Renee Kendal
	2006	Nicole Hoftyzer

Contact information: www.fanshawec.ca 

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Teaching Garden at the Toronto Botanical Garden

Awarded to help pay the costs for 3 bright grade 3 students from Thorncliff Park area to attend one week of camp during the summer at the TBG Teaching Garden. The teachers of the local public schools choose the students. 

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Other than the Teaching Garden Award, the recipients are invited to attend a Garden Club of Toronto meeting and luncheon in January and the Garden Club will also arrange that they receive a one year membership to the Toronto Botanical Garden at a special rate for a year.