2-889-352 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Provincial Industrial Exhibition of Canada, held at Montreal - the South Hall, 1850. Display '...principally devoted to agricultural produce and machinery...Here are bundles of wheat, barley, oats, peas, and beans, in the straw; as well as large quantities of those grains in bags; fine specimens of Indian corn; barrels of flour, kegs of butter, pearlashes; barrels of beef, pork, and hams; packets of hops, cheeses, honey, starch, bees-wax, sugar...The centre of [the] Hall is given to the Horticultural Society, and is occupied by an octagon stand...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.