A joiner's chair: that is a chair with all the parts, by reason of their size, pegged together with mortise and tenon joints. This style of chair was popular on the Ile d'Orleans, the Cote Beaupre and in the area around Quebec City. Wealthier people possessed similar ones with turned feet and upholstered seats, and the farmers bevelled the feet and decorated the cross-pieces with fine mouldings.
For more than two hundred years, young married couples of this region were happy to have these simple chairs. One finds them today in identical lots of two, four, or five bearing the same signs of living, scarcely changed since the day when they furnished the kitchen or a young family.
