Peace Garden to Mark Cross-Border Friendship with Handshake Ceremony and Summer Celebration

Peace Garden to mark cross-border friendship with handshake ceremony and summer celebration

Nearly a century after it was founded as a living symbol of friendship between Canada and the United States, the International Peace Garden is set to host a celebration honouring that vision with a literal Handshake Across the Border.

Peace Garden celebrates Summer Floral Celebration with handshake across the border

In 1928, Dr. Henry J. Moore of Islington, Ontario, had a big, wild idea. A horticulturist and a teacher, he envisioned a ‘place of peace’ in the form of a beautiful garden on the border of the United States and…