Newsletter  (Jul 2016)  Page(s) 10.  
 
[From "Felicitas Svejda: Who changed the way Northern Countries see Roses", by Claire Laberge & Roch Rollin, pp. 7-12]
After Dr Svejda retired, the rose breeding program was moved to Ag-Can L'Assomption Station where Ian Ogilvie (plant breeder) and Neville P. Arnold (plant physiologist) continued to release roses in the Explorer Series and worked on developing culture media for the micropropagation of all new cultivars selected for release. They introduced twelve of Dr Svejda's seedlings obtained from the tetraploid roses program. After the rose breeding program was moved again, some were also introduced from Ag-Can St-Jean-sur-Richelieu Station:
'George Vancouver' 1994 = ('L83' × 'E10');

Book  (2012)  Page(s) 106.  
 
George Vancouver. Medium red. 24 [petals¨. 36". Repeat.
An Explorer rose. A kordesii hybrid. Deep crimson red buds burst into clusters of roughly 2.5-inch (7-cm) mildly fragrant medium red to dark pink cupped flowers with creamy pink yellow stamens. Good first and reliable repeat bloom in most years. Foliage is mid to deep glossy green on thorny cane. Red hips in fall. Susceptible to some types (races) of black spot but very hardy (zone 3).

Article (magazine)  (2010)  Page(s) 1781.  
 
George Vancouver, Northern Earth-Kind rose trials, Shrub, 1994, Felicitas Svejda, Ploidy 4x ....

Book  (2008)  Page(s) 27, 31, 44.  
 
p. 27: 'De Montarville', 'George Vancouver', 'Lambert Closse', 'Nicolas' and 'Royal Edward' were tested in Ottawa for three years. They are bush roses....
'George Vancouver' was released in 1994 from L'Assomption. It was derived from L83 ...and E10, a complex hybrid of ((R. kordesii x D07) x 'Champlain'). It compares well to 'Champlain' in hardiness and flowering attributes. The shrub is attractive with good foliage cover ynd light red fragrant flowers.

p. 31: From open pollination of 'Red Dawn x Suzanne' I selected D07 and D08. ...D08 had double, soft pink flowers, was very hardy and flowered repeatedly. It was highly resistant to powdery mildew but was somewhat susceptible to blackspot. It was pollen parent of 'Champlain' which in turn produced 'George Vancouver' and 'Louis Jolliet'. D08 was also the progenitor of 'John Davis', which in turn produced 'Lambert Closse' and 'Royal Edward'. 

p. 44: Graph 7 Bush roses released from L'Assomption, QC...
George Vancouver = L83 (see Graph 3) X E10

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 42.  
 
George Vancouver
Shrub 1994
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