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The Secret of the White Willow

Would you believe it if someone told you that the marshlands of Dundee played a crucial role in developing one of our best-known medicines?
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Would you believe it if someone told you that the marshlands of Dundee played a crucial role in developing one of our best-known medicines?

Health and Medicine Plants All subjects
  • director
    André Desrochers
  • producer
    André Desrochers
  • script
    André Desrochers
  • music
    Jérôme Langlois

Education

Ages 8 to 12
School subjects
Geography - Territory: Protected History and Citizenship Education - Industrialization (1800s) Science - Life Systems/Ecology

Questions/Activities:

  • Why was MacLagan sent to Canada?
  • What was the source of the remedy that MacLagan found?
  • What is that remedy known as today?

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