The Macdonald Tobacco Company was a Canadian tobacco company that was founded in 1858 by William C. Macdonald and his brother Augustine. The company converted tobacco leaf from southern U.S. suppliers
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. Seventy-nine species
Macdonald Tobacco
…Brothers and Co.) was a Canadian tobacco company that was founded in 1858 by William C. Macdonald and his brother Augustine. The company converted tobacco leaf from southern U.S. suppliers to pipe and chewing tobacco in Montreal, Quebec. After several acquisitions, it is now known as Japan Tobacco…
A ripening tobacco leaf, harvested and cured before use
Tobacco drying kiln in Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, 2018. This kiln was built in 1957, and moved to Rotary Park in 2000. Kilns of this design were built from the early 1930s through to the late 1960s.
Basma tobacco leaves drying in the sun at Pomak village in Xanthi, Greece