Exhibitions


The first industrial exhibition held in Canada, and

probably the first in the world, was that of 1737, promoted by the

Intendant Hocquart. It included fruits and grains, woods and furs, and

the products of the mines and the fisheries. The exhibition was

afterwards sent to France. A provincial exhibition was held in Toronto

in 1846; Ottawa had an exhibition in 1878; Montreal in 1880; Halifax in

1881; and St. John in 1883. Since then many other cities and towns have

used this means of illustrating the industrial resources of the locality

and the country. =Bib.=: Johnson, First Things in Canada.



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