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The Sierra Leone Exhibition was an event held in 1865 to promote the agriculture of countries in that region and their colonial overseers.
In 1863, the R. W. Hartshorn was discussing the topic of agriculture in the Colony of Sierra Leone with a group of men that had created the Young Men's Institute. These discussions then led to the suggestion of an exhibition to be held in Sierra Leone. On December 18, 1863, a dozen men in Freetown met to discuss the possibility of holding an exhibition of African products in the colony.
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, informally Salone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a total area of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi) and a population of 7,075,641 as of the 2015 census. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. Sierra Leone has a dominant unitary central government. The president is the head of state and the head of government. The country's capital and largest city is Freetown. Sierra Leone is made up of five administrative regions: the Northern Province, North West Province, Eastern Province, Southern Province and the Western Area. These regions are subdivided into sixteen districts.
The Young Men's Institute (YMI) is a Catholic fraternal organization.
An executive committee was created on January 5, 1864 under the leadership of the J. T. Comissiong. On March 26, a public meeting was held to discuss the proposed exhibition to the mechanics and farmers of the colony. The colonial government granted £250 and another £427 2s. 6d. was raised from private individuals in the colony. [1]
The first major problem of the organizing committee was in finding a suitable building for the exhibition. Not having the funds to build a new exhibition building, the committee found it suitable to use the fruit and vegetable market building and the adjacent Court House connected by a temporary building for the exhibition.
The exhibits were divided into 4 sections which was then divided into 34 classes. There were 8 nations represented at the exhibition: Africa: Gambia, Gorée, Lagos, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone Europe: France, Great Britain.
Île de Gorée is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is an 18.2-hectare (45-acre) island located 2 kilometres at sea from the main harbour of Dakar, famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade although its actual role in the history of the slave trade is the subject of dispute.
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Acting British Consul, William McCoskry. Oba Dosunmu of Lagos resisted the cession for 11 days while facing the threat of violence on Lagos and its people, but capitulated and signed the Lagos Treaty of Cession. Lagos was declared a colony on 5 March 1862. By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population over 60,000. In the aftermath of prolonged wars between the mainland Yoruba states, the colony established a protectorate over most of Yorubaland between 1890 and 1897. The colony and protectorate were incorporated into Southern Nigeria in February 1906, and Lagos became the capital of the protectorate of Nigeria in January 1914. Since then, Lagos has grown to become the largest city in West Africa, with an estimated metropolitan population of over 9,000,000 as of 2011.
The Exhibition was opened on February 28, 1865 by Governor Samuel Blackall. It closed on April 22, 1865. After open for 30 days, the exhibition saw an attendance of about 4,000. Admission of Tuesdays was 2s. 6d., on Wednesdays and Thursdays it was 1s., on Fridays it was 6d. and on Saturdays it was only 3d. The exhibition was closed on Sundays and Mondays. A season ticket cost 10s. 6d for men and 7s. 6d. for women. The total cost of the exhibition was £1,027 2s. 3d. and the total revenues amounted to £1,089 14s. 10½d. This left a profit of £62 12s. 7½d. [2]
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