Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd. is a furniture manufacturing company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Palliser Furniture is a family-owned company. Palliser Furniture manufactures and distributes upholstery furniture products throughout Canada, Mexico and United States. Palliser Furniture manufactures all types of upholstery, stationary, motion, recliners, home theatre, and chairs over 300 leathers and fabrics. In 2015 the former president Cary Benson was promoted CEO, succeeding Art DeFehr. In 1944, Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian-born immigrant to Canada, began making wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Within a few years, the business moved from the basement into
Egg-and-spoon race Egg-and-spoon race An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day, alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race. The earliest recorded usage in the "Oxford English Dictionary" is in an article of 8 September 1894 featured in "The Daily News": "the gentlemen had a turn in the egg-and-spoon race, in which the competitors had to punt with one hand