Ferdinand Larose

Ferdinand Alphonse Fortunat Larose (April 1, 1888 - January 29, 1955) was a French Canadian agronomist, best known for having created in Ontario one of the largest regeneration forests in the 1920s, named after him.

Having established an office in Plantagenet, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, he started an inventory of agricultural lands.

[1] Ferdinand Larose had set up a small-scale reforestation experiment with seeds and planting trees in 1921-1923 (the Plantagent Demonstration Woodlot),.

For this, in 1928, the United Counties of Prescott and Russell acquired, on Larose's insistence, the territory of the future forest.

It covers an area of 110 square km in Clarence-Rockland, The Nation, Alfred and Plantagenet and Russell territories.

[4] Ferdinand Larose was then nicknamed The Man Who Planted Trees, after the short novel by French nature writer Jean Giono.

In 2004, the Ferdinand Larose Environmental Prize was established in his honor by the French Canadian Association of Ontario and Prescott Russell.