{"id":3132,"date":"2020-11-10T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:21:16","slug":"without-whisky-cigar-sales-tumbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"Without Whisky, Cigar Sales Tumbled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author-wrap\">\n<div>Posted by:<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/author\/susanna-mcleod\"><span class=\"name\">Susanna McLeod<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"author-more\">More from Susanna McLeod<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-dates\">Posted on: June 18, 2019 | Last Updated: June 18, 2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Workers filed into their seats at the thriving factory to start the 11-hour shift. From 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. in downtown Kingston, the men and the teenage boys and girls manually processed tobacco leaves into fine-quality cigars.<\/p>\n<p>Cigar smoking was surprisingly big business in Canada in the mid-1800s, and the local tobacconists were up to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumption per capital increased from 1,804 pounds in 1861 to 1,985 pounds in 1871,\u201d according to editors Harold A. Innes and Arthur R.M. Lower in \u201cThe Tobacco Industry\u201d in Select Documents in Canadian Economic History 1783-1885 (University of Toronto Press 1933). \u201cThe consumption of Canadian leaf increased rapidly after 1880-1,\u201d added Innes and Lower. Several factories supplied the region, the most prominent owners being George A. McGowan and Simon Oberndorffer.<\/p>\n<p>Emigrating from Bavaria, Germany, Oberndorffer (born 1830) set foot first in New York. Learning the tobacco trade, he moved north in 1857, one of the first of the Jewish faith to make Kingston home. \u201cThe earliest records indicate that by 1865, Simon Oberndorffer, purveyor of Cigars and Tobacco, was located at Princess near Bagot, just up from what was then Hobart\u2019s Medical Mall (155 Princess St.),\u201d according to Stones Kingston\u2019s \u201cJewish History.\u201d At that time, the merchant varied his offerings from tobacco with jewelry and clocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/news\/local-news\/without-whisky-cigar-sales-tumbled\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by:Susanna McLeod More from Susanna McLeod Posted on: June 18, 2019 | Last Updated: June 18, 2019 Workers filed into their seats at the thriving factory to start the 11-hour shift. From 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. in downtown Kingston, the men and the teenage boys and girls manually processed tobacco leaves into fine-quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}