Cora Scott- PhotoCanadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
Cora L.Scott
Cora L. Scott (1930 – 2005) was a greatly respected and dedicated nurse who worked in Canada’s North.
Cora L.Scott
She was the first permanent nurse at Grise Fiord on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut in the late 1980s, but most of her career was spent in the Northwest Territories.
She was also a talented amateur botanist and an exceptional artist.
One of her favourite pastimes was collecting the local Arctic flora, preserving and documenting them, and creating watercolour renderings of these tiny flowers and plants.
Dwarf raspherry by Scott, Cora L.Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
A talented artist with a passion for capturing the delicate beauty of Arctic plants, Cora L. Scott gifted her collection of watercolours and pressed flowers to the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Her watercolours are part of the museum's Nature Art collection.
Her artwork is a wonderful legacy from this Canadian nurse and naturalist of Jamaican origin who loved the far North, its flora and its people.
Pinguicula vulgaris by Scott, Cora L.Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
Pinguicula vulgaris, Common Butterwort (also known as Bog Violet)
Pinguicula vulgaris, Common Butterwort (also known as Bog Violet)
Pinguicula vulgaris, Common Butterwort (also known as Bog Violet)
Silene vulgaris by Scott, Cora L.Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
Silene uralensis, Bladder Campion
Silene uralensis, Bladder Campion
Silene uralensis, Bladder Campion
