Brother Marie-Victorin travelled completely around the island of Cuba.
As one of the earliest ecologists, he helped tell people about Cuba's splendid flora. He also brought a large number of his finds back to Quebec with him, over 3,000 herbarium plants collected with Brother Léon in Cuba (placed in the Marie-Victorin Herbarium at the Université de Montréal's Institut de recherche en biologie végétale) and several Cuban plants that are still thriving at the Botanical Garden, 70 years later!
Herbarium specimens pressed from plants brought from Cuba by Marie-Victorin. | 
Credits: Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM
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