sentences:  By 1930 work had started on the project which converted an ugly stone quarry into a horticultural showcase, known as the Royal Botanical Gardens.A decade later a bill was introduced in the Provincial Legislature calling for an even more ambitious project which when completed would become the "Mecca of flower lovers from all parts of North America" its supporters claimed.The sponsor of the legislation was the Minister of Highways in the Provincial Government, and native Hamiltonian, T.B.