More than 80 volunteers spent the morning digging through the dirt in Edworthy Park planting native trees and shrubs.

It was part of TD Tree Day, an annual event that has been happening since 2010 which has resulted in more that 550,000 trees being planted to date across Canada.

“It’s 11,000 trees and shrubs in Calgary alone,” explained Robert Ghazal, prairie region senior vice-president with TD Canada Trust. “I work with an incredible bunch of people, who are motivated on so many different causes and so many different initiatives.”

In partnership with the City of Calgary, these new trees and shrubs will replace those that had to be removed or were felled by wildlife.

“What we heard earlier from the City of Calgary is there’s a lot of non-native species that have been brought in,” Gh

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