What started as one hundred White Camellia’s being donated to Christchurch’s Botanical Gardens became the Kate Sheppard Memorial Walk in 1990. The White Camellia was the symbol of Woman’s Suffrage movement. To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of her successful campaign in 1993, a new White Camellia was created and named the ‘Kate Sheppard’. All …
On the 16th December 1930, this stone memorial was built around a natural spring that the first settlers used for water – just a few metres from Settler’s Corner in Hagley Park. You can find it along the Kate Sheppard Memorial Walk in the Botanic Gardens. It acknowledges the 80th anniversary of the arrival of …
What started as one hundred White Camellias being donated to Christchurch’s Botanical Gardens became the Kate Sheppard Memorial Walk in 1990. The White Camellia was the symbol of Woman’s Suffrage movement. To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of her successful campaign to win women the right to vote in 1993, a new White Camellia was …
