John Davidson (1878 – 1970) was a notable Scottish-Canadian botanist.
He later moved to Canada in the hopes of securing a professorship at the soon to be established University of British Columbia (UBC).
Davidson established a herbarium on West Pender Street, Vancouver, and a botanical garden near New Westminster, at Coquitlam (at the Colony Farm and Essondale farming and mental hospital complex, which later became Riverview Hospital in the 1950s).
This move is often described as having involved the transfer of 25,000 plants, though this figure is an exaggeration.
Even if Davidson and his staff transferred two thousand plants, the feat would still have been extraordinary.