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Broman, Knut Mattias
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1895-1989
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Matt Broman was born February 2, 1895 in Sweden. He became a landscape architect, working in and around Hamilton, Ontario. In the late 1930's, he was Superintendent of Arboriculture at the Niagara Parks Commission and was working at that time with T.B. McQuesten on designing the Royal Botanical Gardens. Matt Broman Park in Hamilton is named in his honour. He died in 1989.
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Created JSB September 2019
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Whitehern Museum Archives http://www.whitehern.ca/index.php
Ancestry https://www.ancestry.ca
"Namesakes: Matt Broman Park: stories behind local place names," Hamilton Spectator, June 18, 2013 https://www.thespec.com/news-story/3844920-namesakes-matt-broman-park/