Unprecedented Menagerie of Wild Animals

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Event Type

Exhibition

Details

Location: Kingston
County: Frontenac
Type: Exhibition
Venue:
Date: 11 Jun 1834
Date notes:

Programme Notes

The exhibition includes: 

  • A great white/ polar bear 
  • African Lion (the keeper enters the cage with the lion at half 12 and 4 o'clock)
  • One elephant 
  • Two hyena 
  • Black Bear 
  • N. A. Panther 
  • White Racoon
  • Bengal Tiger 
  • Two leopards 
  • Camel 
  • New Holland Ostriches (male and female) 
  • Peruvian Alpacha 
  • Major Downing and his pony, and many other small animals 
  • The Grand Cosmorama (exhibited at the same time and place) 

Chronicle and Gazette 31 May, 1834, 2.