Canadian Wild Flowers is based on a true story of one woman’s
courage and hope in meeting the challenges of poverty and loneliness.
It is 1865 in Upper Canada, and newly widowed Agnes Fitzgibbon must
find a way to support her six children. A talented amateur painter, she
sets out to create the very first book of Canadian wild flowers.
Without a single colour press in the colony to print her illustrations,
Agnes fears her dream will wither on the vine. A Victorian woman in a
man’s world, she faces her publisher’s reluctance, her mother’s
disapproval and her own self-doubt. Enlisting the aid of her three young
daughters to hand paint each drawing, Agnes discovers the importance of
family and of belief in her dream…and forever changes Canadian book
publishing.
