2-889-501 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Provincial Industrial Exhibition of Canada, held at Montreal - the North Hall, 1850. On display was '...a splendid collection of furniture, chiefly in black walnut, some of it richly carved. There is another collection at the opposite end; the sofas, chairs, centre tables, bedsteads, and cots, with other articles of convenience or luxury, display much taste and skill'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.