In 1899 Our founder, Edward Schmidt, was the third of four sons born to William and Wilhelmina Schmidt of Bentinck Township near Hanover, Ontario. William and Wilhelmina had recently emigrated from Germany being attracted to the Hanover area because of its wealth of farm land and hardwood bushes.

Hanover was, by the 1920's the "Capital" of the Canadian furniture industry. 

     

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