Exhibition title: William Armstrong: Art and Enterprise, Watercolour Paintings of New Ontario. Curators: Janet Clark, Thunder Bay Art Gallery; 1996.01.19-1996.03.17. Further venue: Glenbow Museum: 1996.05.04-1996.08.04.
“The scene represented above is an attack upon a potato store in the town of Galway, on the 13th of the present month, when the distress had become too great for the poor squalid and unpitied inhabitants to endure their misery any longer, without…
“Searching for potatoes is one of the occupations of those who cannot obtain out-door relief. It is gleaning in a potato-field– and how few are left after the potatoes are dug, must be known to every one who has ever seen the field cleared. What the…