Cabinetmaker who arrived in 1840 on the Island Queen from London. As William Tanner wrote to prospective immigrants, “The mahogany here is very good and pretty and it would be more advisable to bring a cabinet-maker out than furniture, unless it be very good and you have it by you.” In 1834 Dr Collie in his letters home detailed furniture made from local timbers writing: “I have had two tables made of it which when polished with beeswax and turpentine looks very well; one a breakfast or Pembroke table cost with castors $4/-/- and another good sized table for six persons, also castors $5/10/-.” The styles were those of the provinces and English pattern books with which Baines was acquainted.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
